A4266 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 12 July 2017 at 17:48 involving a Keeway RKV 125 motorcycle
A Keeway RKV 125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4266 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 17:48 on Wednesday 12 July 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the Keeway RKV 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Keeway RKV 125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40645, longitude -3.34384, in the CF62 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
- 2017621701078
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 4266
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1986.
Slight
Minibus crash on the A4226 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 30 March 1986
20 m awayRef 1986620E03440
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A4226 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 29 December 2011
26 m awayRef 2011620213936
Slight
Car crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 25 February 1983
26 m awayRef 1983620E01790
Serious
Minibus crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 3 September 1987
33 m awayRef 1987620E09130
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 27 February 2025
33 m awayRef 2025622500223
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 25 October 1990
41 m awayRef 1990620E03380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Keeway RKV 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway RKV 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 2017621701078 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 2017.