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Serious A487 crash in Pembrokeshire on 21 June 1980 at 23:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A487 in Pembrokeshire at 23:30 on Saturday 21 June 1980. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Jun 1980
Saturday, 23:30
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99762, longitude -4.96723, in the SA65 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19806380C0218
Council area
Pembrokeshire
Police force
Dyfed-Powys

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
487
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Towing and articulation
    Articulated vehicle
    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Jackknifed
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 21, motorcyclist, 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 19806380C0218 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 1980.