A4063 crash in Bridgend on 7 January 1989 at 20:48 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4063 in Bridgend at 20:48 on Saturday 7 January 1989. The 45-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 1989
- Saturday, 20:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.61856, longitude -3.66189, in the CF34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maesteg.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989620F00210
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4063
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 1999.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 22 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199962F029199
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 21 February 1983
14 m awayRef 1983620F01620
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 15 May 1988
22 m awayRef 1988620F07070
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 21 October 1995
28 m awayRef 199562F040595
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 1 May 1984
41 m awayRef 1984620F04560
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 27 February 1998
50 m awayRef 199862F006098
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 1989620F00210 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1989.