Serious B4343 crash in Ceredigion on 24 December 1980 at 10:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4343 in Ceredigion at 10:15 on Wednesday 24 December 1980. The 52-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1980
- Wednesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18869, longitude -3.95723, in the SY25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19806380B0469
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4343
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 228 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 July 2010.
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 26 July 2010
228 m awayRef 201063BC11410
Serious
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 9 February 1994
246 m awayRef 199463B504794
Slight
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 5 March 1979
283 m awayRef 19796379B0068
Slight
Dennis crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 14 February 2011
345 m awayRef 201163BC03111
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 6 October 2024
369 m awayRef 2024631500261
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 5 December 2002
429 m awayRef 200263BC25302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 52, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 19806380B0469 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ceredigion road accident statistics for 1980.