Unclassified road crash in Caerphilly NP12 on 19 May 2023 at 14:55 involving a Mitsubishi Outlander
A Mitsubishi Outlander and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Caerphilly at 14:55 on Friday 19 May 2023. The 56-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2023
- Friday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi Outlander and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6759, longitude -3.21014, in the NP12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackwood.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023610019023
- Council area
- Caerphilly
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 16 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006610109706
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 25 January 2002
39 m awayRef 2002610006202
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 29 January 1986
52 m awayRef 198661C030860
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 11 August 1989
52 m awayRef 198961C252890
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 15 November 1984
56 m awayRef 198461C374840
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Caerphilly, 20 June 1998
58 m awayRef 1998610080098
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023610019023 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Caerphilly road accident statistics for 2023.