A475 crash in Ceredigion on 23 June 1998 at 20:50 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A475 in Ceredigion at 20:50 on Tuesday 23 June 1998. The 16-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 1998
- Tuesday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05055, longitude -4.40099, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199863MM12798
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 475
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- 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 8 November 2014.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 8 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201463BC18614
Slight
Van crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 3 August 1985
64 m awayRef 19856385B0271
Slight
Lorry crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 5 June 1979
64 m awayRef 19796379B0187
Slight
Scooter crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 28 July 1989
78 m awayRef 198963B526889
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Peugeot 106 crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 12 December 2003
94 m awayRef 200363BC26303
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 28 February 2005
108 m awayRef 200563BC11605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199863MM12798 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ceredigion road accident statistics for 1998.