Serious A4046 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 29 April 1998 at 23:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent at 23:45 on Wednesday 29 April 1998. The 31-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Apr 1998
- Wednesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73652, longitude -3.17961, in the NP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cwm.
Map of where the crash happened in Blaenau Gwent
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610050798
- Council area
- Blaenau Gwent
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4046
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2017.
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 29 August 2017
34 m awayRef 2017610032017
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 11 June 2002
41 m awayRef 2002610055802
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 7 July 1997
41 m awayRef 1997610079997
Slight
Car crash on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent, 3 August 1998
45 m awayRef 1998610104398
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 19 December 2025
45 m awayRef 2025610058525
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Blaenau Gwent, 8 November 2003
50 m awayRef 2003610119603
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- 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
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 1998610050798 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blaenau Gwent road accident statistics for 1998.