Serious unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 16 July 2000 at 10:13 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 10:13 on Sunday 16 July 2000. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2000
- Sunday, 10:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69411, longitude -3.02851, in the NP4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000610090900
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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 13 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 13 October 1984
14 m awayRef 198461B425840
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Torfaen, 3 November 1984
14 m awayRef 198461B459840
Slight
Car crash on the A4051 in Torfaen, 22 December 1980
14 m awayRef 198061B59080P
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Torfaen, 28 September 2003
20 m awayRef 2003610106003
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torfaen, 19 June 1995
50 m awayRef 1995610066195
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Torfaen, 24 July 2011
51 m awayRef 2011610041911
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 2000610090900 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2000.