A40 crash in Monmouthshire on 19 December 1994 at 21:10 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A40 in Monmouthshire at 21:10 on Monday 19 December 1994. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1994
- Monday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78964, longitude -2.74285, in the NP25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994610129994
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 March 1994.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 3 March 1994
At the same spotRef 1994610026794
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 16 August 2012
10 m awayRef 2012610045712
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 25 April 1991
50 m awayRef 199161B16791T
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 16 January 2002
51 m awayRef 2002610028202
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 9 May 2025
53 m awayRef 2025610018325
Slight
Ford Courier crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 8 August 1999
54 m awayRef 1999610101999
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 1994610129994 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 1994.