A40 crash in Pembrokeshire on 25 February 1990 at 18:40 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A40 in Pembrokeshire at 18:40 on Sunday 25 February 1990. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 1990
- Sunday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80702, longitude -4.78059, in the SA67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199063C506290
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 March 1987.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 12 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198763C006187
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 17 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199263C527392
Slight
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Slight
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27 m awayRef 202363C008023
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 1 February 2001
32 m awayRef 200163PP01301
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 2 April 2002
36 m awayRef 200263CP07202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 199063C506290 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 1990.