Fatal A4068 crash in Carmarthenshire on 9 June 2004 at 19:40 involving a Honda CB600 Hornet motorcycle
A Honda CB600 Hornet motorcycle crashed on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire at 19:40 on Wednesday 9 June 2004. The 33-year-old male rider was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 9 Jun 2004
- Wednesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB600 Hornet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80925, longitude -3.84216, in the SA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200463AC36304
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 1 December 2004
72 m awayRef 200463AC59304
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 6 May 1990
100 m awayRef 199063A515890
Slight
Car crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 23 June 1979
100 m awayRef 19796379A0239
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 13 September 1992
100 m awayRef 199263A528992
Serious
Car crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 15 May 2005
104 m awayRef 200563AC20805
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A474 in Carmarthenshire, 26 December 1998
108 m awayRef 199863ER21198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600 Hornet
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600 Hornet)
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 200463AC36304 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2004.