A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 4 August 2002 at 10:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 10:10 on Sunday 4 August 2002. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2002
- Sunday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79802, longitude -2.68704, in the NP25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002610089002
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 466
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 3 November 2003
51 m awayRef 2003610125803
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 18 December 2004
76 m awayRef 2004610144304
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 9 September 2024
81 m awayRef 2024610038524
Fatal
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 24 April 2005
100 m awayRef 2005610027805
Fatal
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 2 November 1986
124 m awayRef 198661B47086P
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 6 November 1992
139 m awayRef 199261B437920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2002610089002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Monmouthshire road accident statistics for 2002.