Serious A487 crash in Pembrokeshire on 27 November 1981 at 14:35 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire at 14:35 on Friday 27 November 1981. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 1981
- Friday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01282, longitude -4.86184, in the SA42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19816381C0484
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 March 2021.
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 28 March 2021
81 m awayRef 202163C013221
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 6 February 2019
85 m awayRef 201963C009719
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 11 August 1982
100 m awayRef 19826382C0275
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 13 August 2004
108 m awayRef 200463CP27504
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 5 October 2024
117 m awayRef 2024631500037
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 24 January 2025
164 m awayRef 2025631545923
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 19816381C0484 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 1981.