Serious A465 crash in Monmouthshire on 12 November 1993 at 22:48 involving a Ford Fiesta
A minibus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire at 22:48 on Friday 12 November 1993. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Nov 1993
- Friday, 22:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Minibus and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81719, longitude -3.11368, in the NP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993610116593
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 465
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 26 November 2003.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 26 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003610129603
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 18 September 2008
At the same spotRef 2008610071608
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 2 December 2004
10 m awayRef 2004610138004
Serious
Car crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 16 January 1998
10 m awayRef 1998610005198
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 1 December 2001
10 m awayRef 2001610139201
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 30 October 1999
10 m awayRef 1999610148599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (5)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 47, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 65, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 51, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
Casualty 6: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 59, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
Casualty 8: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1993610116593 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 1993.