B4245 crash in Monmouthshire on 16 January 1996 at 06:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4245 in Monmouthshire at 06:45 on Tuesday 16 January 1996. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 1996
- Tuesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58416, longitude -2.83937, in the NP26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996610004396
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4245
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1999.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 8 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999610013199
Slight
Audi A2 crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 2 March 2012
10 m awayRef 2012610011012
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 12 January 2000
10 m awayRef 2000610005100
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 26 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011610053511
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 28 February 2013
10 m awayRef 2013610032113
Serious
Audi A1 crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 29 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025610027225
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 1996610004396 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 1996.