The junction has seen several safety measures put in place after a number of incidents including cars crashing into a house
A car smashed into the front of Emma Howell’s house(Image: Emma Howells)
A junction that’s seen several crashes including incidents where cars have ploughed into a house has had safety measures put in place.
Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) council has confirmed all works have now been completed on road safety improvements at Station Road’s junction with Oxford Street in Maerdy in the Rhondda Fach, responding to recent dangerous incidents where cars have collided with a home.
The bend at the bottom of Maerdy Mountain leading to Maerdy Road has seen several crashes including in April 2025 where a vehicle crashed into a house.
The council has worked with South Wales Police to better understand why one-vehicle collisions kept happening at the location and officers designed a road safety improvement scheme with council capital funding set aside for it.
The work started in mid-June 2026 and has now been delivered by Calibre Contracting Ltd.
It introduces measures to improve highway safety and highlight the 20mph speed limit. Get the latest Rhondda news first by signing up to our newsletter here
Works have included the installation of containment kerbs, reflective bollards and improved signage while an uncontrolled crossing point has been installed and the existing double yellow lines along Oxford Street and Station Road have been extended.
These measures followed improved signage that had already been installed at the location – including gateway signs and countdown markers along Station Road, making the speed limit clear to motorists.
A variable message sign has also been installed opposite the Station Road/Institute Road junction, displaying the speed limit to southbound traffic once it is exceeded by approaching cars.
All temporary traffic management used during the scheme, including the three way traffic lights, has now been lifted.
Last year resident Emma Howells, who lives at the junction, told how cars kept crashing into her home. Between 2024 and 2025 four cars hit Emma’s home.
Last year, before the work to make the junction safer had taken place, Emma said: “They’re speeding up the hill – we hear them every single night of the week. Now I lay in bed and hear an engine rev and all I can think is ‘Is this going in the front now?’ I just worry until I can hear that it’s gone further up the hill.”
