Serious A4069 crash in Neath Port Talbot on 15 December 2016 at 17:44 involving a Suzuki VL 125 motorcycle
A Suzuki VL 125 motorcycle crashed on the A4069 in Neath Port Talbot at 17:44 on Thursday 15 December 2016. The 37-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 17:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki VL 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80627, longitude -3.87237, in the SA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brynamman.
Map of where the crash happened in Neath Port Talbot
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016621602104
- Council area
- Neath Port Talbot
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4069
- 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
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4069 in Neath Port Talbot, 1 February 2014
16 m awayRef 2014621400252
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4069 in Neath Port Talbot, 14 July 1998
24 m awayRef 199862G024598
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A474 in Neath Port Talbot, 19 December 1995
24 m awayRef 199562M033295
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4069 in Neath Port Talbot, 13 January 2001
36 m awayRef 2001620028417
Slight
Car crash on the A4069 in Neath Port Talbot, 21 January 1985
49 m awayRef 1985620H01130
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A4069 in Neath Port Talbot, 21 May 2019
88 m awayRef 2019621900704
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki VL 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki VL 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016621602104 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Neath Port Talbot road accident statistics for 2016.