The road is closed both ways between the Skenfrith junction of the A465 and the junction with the A40 at the Hardwick roundabout. A spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: The RTC was reported to us at 8am and involved two vehicles – a fiat 500 and a Dacia Duster. A woman and a man, one from each vehicle, were taken to UHW for medical treatment. The vehicles are in the process of being recovered. Both remain in hospital, but their condition is stable. The southbound carriageway was reportedly closed just before 10.40am and the northbound carriageway is now also closed, causing congestion to roads through Abergavenny.
Six hospitalised following two serious crashes on A465 Heads of the Valleys Road
The incidents caused huge travel disruption throughout the entire day
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Six people been hospitalised following two serious crashes on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road.
Emergency services were at the scene throughout the day after the incidents, which took place between Skenfrith Junction and Monmouth Road at 8am, and then between the Llwydcoed the Hirwaun junctions just before 11am.
The first incident saw two people taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, and four people to the same hospital after the second crash.
Winding road … the writer descending into the Clydach gorge west of Abergavenny.
All photographs by Jack Thurston
Winding road … the writer descending into the Clydach gorge west of Abergavenny.
All photographs by Jack Thurston
From Swansea to Abergavenny via the Brecon Beacons, this trip takes in forests, mountains and a former industrial heartland
Sat 1 May 2021 06.00 EDT
After a winter lockdown riding the same old roads within a few miles of home, I am desperate to explore somewhere new and a little further afield. Going somewhere by train and riding home is a simple format for a bike tour, so I hop on a train from Abergavenny to Swansea, on the far side of the south Wales valleys, with no plan other than to spend a couple of days riding back.
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By James Williams
image captionRob Jones declined to offer any further comment to BBC Wales
Plaid Cymru has raised concerns about the potential misuse of public funds in light of sinister comments made by the leader of Neath Port Talbot council in a secret recording.
Party leader Adam Price has called on a public spending watchdog to investigate the comments by Councillor Rob Jones.
He was suspended from Welsh Labour and stepped aside as leader when the recording came to light at the weekend.
Mr Jones declined a BBC Wales request for further comment.
He said the matter is under investigation .