Serious A473 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 17 January 2022 at 11:32 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 hit a pedestrian on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 11:32 on Monday 17 January 2022. An 84-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jan 2022
- Monday, 11:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53823, longitude -3.43941, in the CF72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llanharan. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brynna and Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF72 9RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022622200074
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 473
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2006.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 22 October 2006
6 m awayRef 2006620160019
Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 4 September 2003
12 m awayRef 2003620094343
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 7 March 2012
17 m awayRef 2012620215270
Serious
Car crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 24 November 1994
21 m awayRef 199462B028294
Serious
Rover 25 crash on the A473 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 2 June 2001
21 m awayRef 2001620037915
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 9 January 2009
26 m awayRef 2009620186458
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022622200074 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 2022.