Serious unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF72 on 16 May 2019 at 17:55 involving a Ford Ka+
A motorcycle and a Ford Ka+ were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 17:55 on Thursday 16 May 2019. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 May 2019
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Ka+
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55268, longitude -3.38137, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llantrisant.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019621900680
- Council area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 September 1999
73 m awayRef 199962B044199
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 27 May 2014
84 m awayRef 2014621400968
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 12 April 2017
89 m awayRef 2017621700576
Serious
Yamaha WR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 29 November 2012
102 m awayRef 2012621201491
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 18 July 1997
114 m awayRef 199762B035597
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 4 May 1992
123 m awayRef 1992620B01130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Ka+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2019621900680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rhondda Cynon Taf road accident statistics for 2019.