Serious unclassified road crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf CF42 on 10 September 2023 at 11:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 11:30 on Sunday 10 September 2023. The 41-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Sep 2023
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65692, longitude -3.50814, in the CF42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Treorchy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF42 6NL 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
- 2023622300759
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4061
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 December 1998
5 m awayRef 199862B059998
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 19 June 1996
9 m awayRef 199662B024796
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 May 2002
9 m awayRef 2002620063407
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 29 April 2003
9 m awayRef 2003620084890
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 8 January 1993
9 m awayRef 199362P000593
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4061 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 6 January 2006
15 m awayRef 2006620145717
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 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 41, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023622300759 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 2023.