A serious crash outside Raglan Garden Centre in September 2018 featured on a recent episode of the BBC’s Crash Detectives.The programme follows the Gwent Police Crash Investigation team as they search for clues at the scene of collisions to determine the sequence of events.

The collision outside the garden centre between a KTM 1290 Superduke motorcycle and a Toyota Rav 4 left the rider with serious life-changing injuries and it was down to the officers of the Collision Investigation team of Gwent Police to discover who was at fault.The road was closed off while they looked for clues and patrons of the garden centre had to wait while officers painstakingly examined marks on the road to crucially determine which side of the road the collision occurred on.The vehicle had just left the exit of the garden center to turn back towards Raglan when the last motorcycle in a group of three that had left Bristol that day collided with the side of the car.Marks from the rider’s clothing on the road suggested the 53-year-old rider came off after the impact and a 3-D laser scan image of the scene determined that, after hitting the car, the rider slid for 37 metres at 49mph until he hit the verge.After some enquiries, police found that the bike was a courtesy machine from Fowlers of Bristol so they travelled to Fowlers to speak to Monmouth man, Chris Wellington, who revealed that the bike was fitted with a tracker. He showed the officers the tracker information which indicated the bike looked to be on the wrong side of the road on impact."The first we were aware the bike had been involved was when Gwent Police rang us to come and get the bike" Chris told the Beacon.Using information from the company that owned the tracker, it showed that the speeds the motorcycle was reaching was well above the speed limit of the road.Tracker analysis showed that he was doing 93mph on a 50mph stretch of road and up to 123mph in other places. Collision Investigator PC Ritchie Wyatt from the Gwent Police team said that it was "totally irresponsible riding".The police decided not to prosecute the rider as it was "not in the public interest to do so".The elderly occupants of the Toyota were unharmed.