Serious B4598 crash in Monmouthshire on 25 September 2018 at 13:30 involving a Toyota RAV4
A motorcycle and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the B4598 in Monmouthshire at 13:30 on Tuesday 25 September 2018. The 53-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Sep 2018
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77482, longitude -2.88843, in the NP15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018610045318
- 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
- 40 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2021.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Monmouthshire, 25 August 2021
4 m awayRef 2021610032921
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Monmouthshire, 11 October 2008
10 m awayRef 2008610077708
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on a C road in Monmouthshire, 6 July 2003
10 m awayRef 2003610067903
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 27 May 1980
34 m awayRef 198061B24680T
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Monmouthshire, 25 November 2009
51 m awayRef 2009610085609
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Monmouthshire, 1 June 2014
52 m awayRef 2014610054214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2018610045318 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 2018.