A466 crash in Monmouthshire on 9 September 2024 at 20:00 involving a Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle crashed on the A466 in Monmouthshire at 20:00 on Monday 9 September 2024. The 61-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2024
- Monday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSX 1300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79739, longitude -2.68658, in the NP25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024610038524
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a fatal crash on 24 April 2005.
Fatal
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 24 April 2005
46 m awayRef 2005610027805
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 4 August 2002
81 m awayRef 2002610089002
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 3 November 2003
132 m awayRef 2003610125803
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 17 September 2004
140 m awayRef 2004610111804
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 18 December 2004
157 m awayRef 2004610144304
Fatal
Car crash on the A466 in Monmouthshire, 2 November 1986
183 m awayRef 198661B47086P
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSX 1300
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSX 1300)
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 2024610038524 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.