Unclassified road crash in Caerphilly NP22 on 24 December 2013 at 17:04 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Caerphilly at 17:04 on Tuesday 24 December 2013. The 15-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 17:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76456, longitude -3.28834, in the NP22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhymney.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013610085613
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1991.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly, 24 May 1991
14 m awayRef 1991620A01910
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 3 November 2007
32 m awayRef 2007610089807
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 8 March 1993
40 m awayRef 199362N005593
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 8 March 1994
50 m awayRef 199462N004294
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 9 May 2004
73 m awayRef 2004610098204
Slight
Car crash on the B4257 in Caerphilly, 29 August 2006
82 m awayRef 2006610061906
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 15, motorcyclist (50cc 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 2013610085613 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.