A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 7 March 2010 at 11:30 involving a Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 750 motorcycle crashed on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 11:30 on Sunday 7 March 2010. The 36-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2010
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 750
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6216, longitude -2.67354, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010610010110
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 March 2017.
Serious
Kawasaki EX 650 crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 13 March 2017
7 m awayRef 2017610009517
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 19 May 2022
13 m awayRef 2022610020722
Slight
BMW R 1200 crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 8 April 2016
16 m awayRef 2016610028116
Serious
Honda NT crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 5 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025610011125
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 2 November 2025
18 m awayRef 2025610047225
Serious
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 23 October 2004
22 m awayRef 2004610119604
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 750)
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 2010610010110 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 2010.