Serious B4293 crash in Monmouthshire on 18 December 1996 at 09:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B4293 in Monmouthshire at 09:30 on Wednesday 18 December 1996. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 1996
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67368, longitude -2.75179, in the NP16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996610149696
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4293
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 March 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B4293 in Monmouthshire, 24 March 1985
81 m awayRef 198561B103850
Slight
Car crash on the B4293 in Monmouthshire, 7 June 1982
112 m awayRef 198261B250820
Slight
Car crash on the B4293 in Monmouthshire, 10 April 2006
112 m awayRef 2006610031906
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4293 in Monmouthshire, 5 July 2008
170 m awayRef 2008610053008
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B4293 in Monmouthshire, 9 October 1997
175 m awayRef 1997610118697
Slight
Car crash on the B4293 in Monmouthshire, 13 January 1996
224 m awayRef 1996610003696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 1996610149696 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.