B4254 crash in Caerphilly on 13 September 2013 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4254 in Caerphilly at 15:00 on Friday 13 September 2013. The 30-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2013
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67091, longitude -3.23406, in the NP12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610070713
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 January 2004.
Serious
Car crash on the B4254 in Caerphilly, 24 January 2004
41 m awayRef 2004610014304
Slight
Bus crash on the B4254 in Caerphilly, 18 January 1979
67 m awayRef 1979620A00260
Slight
Van crash on the B4254 in Caerphilly, 19 December 1979
67 m awayRef 1979620A05310
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4254 in Caerphilly, 21 May 1995
114 m awayRef 199562N012595
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B4254 in Caerphilly, 3 January 2017
143 m awayRef 2017610004217
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 6 March 1996
150 m awayRef 199662N004696
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2013610070713 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2013.