A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 20 January 1983 at 02:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 02:00 on Thursday 20 January 1983. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1983
- Thursday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63829, longitude -2.68777, in the NP16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198361B02483P
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 466
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 10 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198361B48283P
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 20 August 1983
At the same spotRef 198361B33083P
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 7 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199161B20191P
Serious
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 12 April 1982
At the same spotRef 198261B15082P
Slight
Bedford crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 25 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199061B49290P
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 24 August 1998
14 m awayRef 1998610119898
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198361B02483P in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Monmouthshire road accident statistics for 1983.