A487 crash in Pembrokeshire on 18 September 1987 at 10:53 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire at 10:53 on Friday 18 September 1987. The 66-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1987
- Friday, 10:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01802, longitude -4.79512, in the SA41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198763C528487
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4582
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1989.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 31 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198963C540889
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 17 July 2024
60 m awayRef 2024631468883
Serious
Triumph Dolomite crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 26 December 1995
61 m awayRef 199563C535995
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 19 October 2025
79 m awayRef 2025631656241
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 12 July 1997
94 m awayRef 199763C518997
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 20 June 1992
100 m awayRef 199263C518192
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198763C528487 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 1987.