A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 23 November 2003 at 20:05 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra crashed on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 20:05 on Sunday 23 November 2003. The 24-year-old male driver and a 34-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2003
- Sunday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64121, longitude -2.68843, in the NP16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chepstow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mount Pleasant, Monmouthshire, NP16 5PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003610130503
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 7 March 1996
22 m awayRef 1996610020996
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 19 May 2011
40 m awayRef 2011610030011
Fatal
Van crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 15 July 1998
63 m awayRef 1998610082598
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 23 May 1996
73 m awayRef 1996610053896
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 7 May 1979
92 m awayRef 197961B17879P
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 26 April 2022
102 m awayRef 2022610013922
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2003610130503 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 2003.