Serious A4051 crash in Torfaen on 5 June 2024 at 07:47 involving a Triumph Street Triple motorcycle
A Triumph Street Triple motorcycle and a Dacia Logan were involved in a crash on the A4051 in Torfaen at 07:47 on Wednesday 5 June 2024. The 35-year-old male rider of the Triumph Street Triple motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jun 2024
- Wednesday, 07:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Triumph Street Triple and Dacia Logan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63358, longitude -3.01968, in the NP44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Torfaen
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024610037524
- Council area
- Torfaen
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4051
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2008.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4051 in Torfaen, 7 September 2008
16 m awayRef 2008610068108
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4051 in Torfaen, 17 January 1993
25 m awayRef 199361B02193P
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Torfaen, 20 February 1984
51 m awayRef 198461B079840
Serious
Van crash on the A4051 in Torfaen, 27 November 1985
51 m awayRef 198561B52885P
Slight
Car crash on the A4051 in Torfaen, 4 April 1985
60 m awayRef 198561B12985P
Serious
Car crash on the A4051 in Torfaen, 18 October 1983
60 m awayRef 198361B44183P
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Street Triple
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Dacia Logan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Street Triple)
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 2024610037524 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.