B4245 crash in Monmouthshire on 2 October 2016 at 14:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B4245 in Monmouthshire at 14:55 on Sunday 2 October 2016. The 25-year-old male driver and a 25-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2016
- Sunday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58635, longitude -2.8433, in the NP26 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Magor West, Monmouthshire, NP26 3FP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016610043716
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1993.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 12 November 1993
15 m awayRef 1993610119993
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 18 July 2020
22 m awayRef 2020610021020
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 8 January 1992
28 m awayRef 199261B010920
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Monmouthshire, 18 October 1989
64 m awayRef 198961B471890
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Monmouthshire, 13 November 1985
64 m awayRef 198561B536850
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4245 in Monmouthshire, 5 July 2012
110 m awayRef 2012610036812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016610043716 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.