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A468 crash in Caerphilly on 22 May 1997 at 20:30 involving a Honda MTX125RW motorcycle

A Honda MTX125RW motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A468 in Caerphilly at 20:30 on Thursday 22 May 1997. The 23-year-old male rider and a 16-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 May 1997
Thursday, 20:30
Vehicles
1
Honda MTX125RW
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58949, longitude -3.19904, in the CF83 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997610061297
Council area
Caerphilly
Police force
Gwent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
468
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda MTX125RW

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda MTX125RW)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda MTX125RW)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1997610061297 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 1997.