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Serious A472 crash in Torfaen on 12 March 1995 at 12:18 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A472 in Torfaen at 12:18 on Sunday 12 March 1995. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 22-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Mar 1995
Sunday, 12:18
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69602, longitude -3.06107, in the NP4 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1995610043395
Council area
Torfaen
Police force
Gwent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
472
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 43 metres away, was a fatal crash on 19 December 2014.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, 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 1995610043395 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 1995.