Unclassified road crash in Torfaen NP4 on 17 July 2024 at 15:20 involving a Dacia Sandero
A Dacia Sandero and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen at 15:20 on Wednesday 17 July 2024. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2024
- Wednesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dacia Sandero and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7383, longitude -3.07004, in the NP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Abersychan.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024610026724
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2002.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 21 September 2002
33 m awayRef 2002610106602
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 2 April 1985
42 m awayRef 198561B113850
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 29 June 1982
42 m awayRef 198261B276820
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 23 August 1996
89 m awayRef 1996610098696
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 4 August 2000
89 m awayRef 2000610107800
Slight
Car crash on the B4246 in Torfaen, 15 May 2008
102 m awayRef 2008610033708
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2024610026724 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torfaen road accident statistics for 2024.