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Serious A4046 crash in Blaenau Gwent on 18 December 1998 at 07:15 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on the A4046 in Blaenau Gwent at 07:15 on Friday 18 December 1998. The 36-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured and a 31-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Dec 1998
Friday, 07:15
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.74519, longitude -3.18447, 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
1998610169498
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
40 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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Female, aged 36, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 31, cyclist, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 1998610169498 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.