C road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 25 December 1993 at 06:30 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on a C road in Torfaen at 06:30 on Saturday 25 December 1993. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1993
- Saturday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70506, longitude -3.04537, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pontypool.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993610134793
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 June 2007.
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Optare crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 5 August 2016
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 13 June 1988
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 592 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 1993610134793 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 1993.