A4222 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 1 March 1991 at 21:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4222 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 21:55 on Friday 1 March 1991. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1991
- Friday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47635, longitude -3.42574, in the CF71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991620E00560
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4222
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 106 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1979.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4222 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 2 February 1979
106 m awayRef 1979620E00330
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4222 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 22 October 1990
124 m awayRef 1990620E03360
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4222 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 28 November 1992
153 m awayRef 1992620E03080
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 8 May 1982
161 m awayRef 1982620E01200
Slight
Car crash on the A4222 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 22 December 1981
202 m awayRef 1981620E03510
Serious
Car crash on the A4222 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 6 November 1982
222 m awayRef 1982620E03400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, 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 1991620E00560 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 1991.