Unclassified road crash in Monmouthshire NP15 on 26 October 2014 at 20:40 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Monmouthshire at 20:40 on Sunday 26 October 2014. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7017, longitude -2.90771, in the NP15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Usk.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014610075214
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 472
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 May 1994.
Serious
Car crash on the A472 in Monmouthshire, 30 May 1994
11 m awayRef 1994610054394
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A472 in Monmouthshire, 18 June 1993
11 m awayRef 1993610039993
Slight
Bedford crash on the A472 in Monmouthshire, 23 November 1992
24 m awayRef 199261B46392P
Slight
Car crash on the A472 in Monmouthshire, 22 September 1980
38 m awayRef 198061B42280P
Serious
Car crash on the A472 in Monmouthshire, 11 October 1980
38 m awayRef 198061B45380P
Slight
Lorry crash on the A472 in Monmouthshire, 7 December 1988
38 m awayRef 198861B47288P
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2014610075214 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 2014.