B4343 crash in Ceredigion on 8 April 2000 at 09:15 involving a Leyland DAF FA 60 lorry
A Leyland DAF FA 60 lorry and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion at 09:15 on Saturday 8 April 2000. A 43-year-old female passenger on the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2000
- Saturday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Leyland DAF FA 60 and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12445, longitude -4.0319, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200063AA04500
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4343
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 24 September 1981
100 m awayRef 19816381B0329
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 2 May 2006
114 m awayRef 200663BC07006
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 27 December 2016
184 m awayRef 201663BC19016
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on a C road in Ceredigion, 5 November 2001
216 m awayRef 200163BC16701
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 1 April 1999
410 m awayRef 199963AA05999
Slight
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 21 November 2015
427 m awayRef 201563BC17115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 60
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (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 200063AA04500 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 2000.