Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 28 March 2005 at 17:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 17:50 on Monday 28 March 2005. The 42-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 28 Mar 2005
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49642, longitude -3.98566, in the SY20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563BC06705
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 2007.
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 21 April 2007
10 m awayRef 200763BC06607
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 30 March 1984
20 m awayRef 19846384B0099
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 November 2014
32 m awayRef 201463BC15914
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 17 October 2018
32 m awayRef 201863B099518
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 22 July 2017
41 m awayRef 201763B067817
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 October 2012
51 m awayRef 201263BC16812
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200563BC06705 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 2005.