A40 crash in Monmouthshire on 21 June 2025 at 09:31 involving a Yamaha MT motorcycle
A Yamaha MT motorcycle crashed on the A40 in Monmouthshire at 09:31 on Saturday 21 June 2025. The male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2025
- Saturday, 09:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha MT
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76688, longitude -2.83244, in the NP15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mitchel Troy and Trellech United, Monmouthshire, NP15 2HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Monmouthshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025610025925
- Council area
- Monmouthshire
- Police force
- Gwent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2012.
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 16 September 2012
16 m awayRef 2012610056512
Slight
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 16 August 2002
23 m awayRef 2002610100102
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 23 April 2018
23 m awayRef 2018610012018
Slight
Yamaha FJR crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 27 August 2024
27 m awayRef 2024610035124
Slight
Yamaha XJ 600 S Diversion crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 18 September 1999
31 m awayRef 1999610131999
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Monmouthshire, 12 September 2021
34 m awayRef 2021610036721
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 689 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT)
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 2025610025925 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 2025.