Serious A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 23 October 2004 at 14:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 14:00 on Saturday 23 October 2004. The 54-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Oct 2004
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62142, longitude -2.67368, in the NP16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bulwark and Thornwell, Monmouthshire, NP16 5RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004610119604
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1994.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 26 August 1994
At the same spotRef 1994610126994
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the M48 in Monmouthshire, 2 December 2022
10 m awayRef 2022610054822
Slight
DAF Trucks FTG 95XF crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 26 May 2005
10 m awayRef 2005610062405
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 28 April 2024
17 m awayRef 2024610013724
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 23 July 2002
20 m awayRef 2002610070902
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 7 March 2010
22 m awayRef 2010610010110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2004610119604 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.