B4598 crash in Monmouthshire on 31 January 2016 at 21:48 involving a Nissan Leaf
A Nissan Leaf and a car were involved in a crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire at 21:48 on Sunday 31 January 2016. The 60-year-old male driver of the Nissan Leaf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 21:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Leaf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71276, longitude -2.91013, in the NP15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016610005116
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4598
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 59 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1990.
Slight
Datsun 280 crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire, 19 December 1990
59 m awayRef 199061B569900
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire, 29 March 1982
59 m awayRef 198261B138820
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire, 10 June 2007
92 m awayRef 2007610042507
Slight
Car crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire, 8 February 1984
126 m awayRef 198461B056840
Slight
Car crash on the A471 in Monmouthshire, 14 November 1979
157 m awayRef 197961B54779P
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire, 19 November 1999
159 m awayRef 1999610155699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Leaf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Leaf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016610005116 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 2016.