B4270 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 23 April 2015 at 17:39 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 17:39 on Thursday 23 April 2015. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 17:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42805, longitude -3.49067, in the CF61 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015621500777
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4270
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4268 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 28 June 1991
34 m awayRef 1991620E01830
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 22 November 1991
71 m awayRef 1991620E03310
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 4 October 2004
72 m awayRef 2004620118877
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B4268 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 4 July 1988
72 m awayRef 1988620E07820
Slight
Harley-Davidson crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 30 July 2025
75 m awayRef 2025622500529
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 16 October 1998
78 m awayRef 199862E026898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 2015621500777 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 2015.