A 43-YEAR-OLD man has been charged in connection with an alleged hit and run crash 19 months ago which left a man fighting for his life.

John Conibeer, who was then 32, required months of surgery following the incident on the A48 at Pwllmeyric, near Chepstow, early on February 17, 2018.

Mr Conibeer, from Newport, was a passenger in a Honda Civic car which had crashed into a wall, and had got out when the collision happened with a van.

Gwent Police launched an appeal at the time to track down the driver of the van.

They made an arrest earlier this year and have now confirmed that a man from the Rogiet area has been charged with driving without due care, plus failure to stop where injury was caused to a person, and failure to report an accident.

He is due to appear in court in November.The same stretch of the A48 is a notorious accident blackspot, which was the scene of a five-car pile-up as recently in 2017, while a man died after a vehicle hit a wall in 2005 and a teenage girl passenger was left critically injured in a 2010 crash.Councillors and police agreed to reduce the speed to 30mph on the Pwllmeyric stretch in 2017.