B4278 crash in Rhondda Cynon Taf on 23 June 2025 at 07:40 involving a Renault Clio
A motorcycle and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 07:40 on Monday 23 June 2025. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Monday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60841, longitude -3.44368, in the CF40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tonypandy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pen-y-graig, Rhondda Cynon Taf, CF40 1SU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rhondda Cynon Taf
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622500442
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 4278
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1999.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 June 1999
6 m awayRef 199962B030599
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 11 November 2005
11 m awayRef 2005620143265
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 28 May 2017
26 m awayRef 2017621700906
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 23 June 1992
28 m awayRef 1992620P00990
Serious
Kawasaki EX 650 crash on the B4278 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 20 November 2013
34 m awayRef 2013621302105
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 10 March 2001
39 m awayRef 2001620033265
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2025622500442 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 2025.