A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 6 May 2024 at 12:24 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 12:24 on Monday 6 May 2024. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2024
- Monday, 12:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67072, longitude -2.68844, in the NP16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024610014224
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 466
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 March 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 4 March 1984
14 m awayRef 198461B07884P
Slight
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 27 December 1988
14 m awayRef 198861B50888P
Slight
Jinlun JL 125 crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 28 July 2007
102 m awayRef 2007610056907
Serious
Citroen Visa crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 27 July 1994
111 m awayRef 1994610075994
Serious
Minibus crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 7 September 1986
139 m awayRef 198661B38886P
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 22 October 2020
152 m awayRef 2020610051320
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc to 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 2024610014224 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 2024.