A469 crash in Caerphilly on 28 August 1998 at 16:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A469 in Caerphilly at 16:15 on Friday 28 August 1998. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 1998
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6445, longitude -3.22665, in the CF82 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998610112798
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 469
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1997.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 23 April 1997
10 m awayRef 1997610081297
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 28 August 2002
10 m awayRef 2002610093402
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 28 July 1995
14 m awayRef 199562N016395
Slight
Reliant Robin crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 10 December 1995
30 m awayRef 199562N028495
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 2 November 2008
36 m awayRef 2008610086608
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A469 in Caerphilly, 26 November 2025
40 m awayRef 2025610052025
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1998610112798 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 1998.