A40 crash in Monmouthshire on 6 May 2004 at 16:00 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire at 16:00 on Thursday 6 May 2004. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort, a 17-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort and an 18-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2004
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar XJ Series and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80954, longitude -3.0101, in the NP7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pen Y Fal, Monmouthshire, NP7 9SR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004610046604
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 465
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A4042 in Monmouthshire, 1 September 2010
At the same spotRef 2010610089910
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 28 July 2008
At the same spotRef 2008610058908
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A465 in Monmouthshire, 21 October 2018
8 m awayRef 2018610053818
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4042 in Monmouthshire, 1 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025610047525
Slight
Honda VT125C crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 24 July 2007
10 m awayRef 2007610055407
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 3 December 1999
10 m awayRef 1999610157099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,343 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2004610046604 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 2004.