Fatal B4342 crash in Ceredigion on 10 August 2004 at 18:05 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion at 18:05 on Tuesday 10 August 2004. The 24-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 10 Aug 2004
- Tuesday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20643, longitude -4.34388, in the SA45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200463BC17304
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 8 February 2011
14 m awayRef 201163BC02311
Slight
Car crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 27 August 1983
57 m awayRef 19836383B0337
Slight
Car crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 8 September 1989
57 m awayRef 198963B534789
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 16 November 1999
71 m awayRef 199963AA20499
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 6 August 2004
110 m awayRef 200463BC16704
Slight
Car crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 25 July 1983
146 m awayRef 19836383B0272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (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 200463BC17304 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 2004.