A40 crash in Monmouthshire on 16 August 2012 at 07:33 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a car were involved in a crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire at 07:33 on Thursday 16 August 2012. The 33-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 07:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78959, longitude -2.74302, in the NP25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012610045712
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 19 December 1994
10 m awayRef 1994610129994
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 3 March 1994
10 m awayRef 1994610026794
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 16 January 2002
54 m awayRef 2002610028202
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 25 April 1991
58 m awayRef 199161B16791T
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 9 May 2025
61 m awayRef 2025610018325
Slight
Ford Courier crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 8 August 1999
63 m awayRef 1999610101999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2012610045712 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 2012.