Serious A40 crash in Carmarthenshire on 15 May 2005 at 13:02 involving a Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R1 motorcycle crashed on the A40 in Carmarthenshire at 13:02 on Sunday 15 May 2005. The 40-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 2005
- Sunday, 13:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98512, longitude -3.8198, in the SA20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563AC20605
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Midi crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 2 September 1994
14 m awayRef 199463A529294
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 20 January 2023
29 m awayRef 202363A005023
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 30 April 2025
34 m awayRef 2025631584185
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 28 January 1983
36 m awayRef 19836383A0034
Serious
Van crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 12 October 1985
36 m awayRef 19856385A0351
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 3 March 2024
68 m awayRef 2024631416601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R1
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R1)
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 200563AC20605 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 2005.