B4335 crash in Carmarthenshire on 28 September 2007 at 17:15 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
Two Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycles were involved in a crash on the B4335 in Carmarthenshire at 17:15 on Friday 28 September 2007. The 30-year-old male rider of vehicle 1 and the 32-year-old male rider of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2007
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 1000 and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.02503, longitude -4.36703, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200763AC41307
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4335
- 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
- 45%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 55%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 28 June 1996
20 m awayRef 199663B520596
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4335 in Carmarthenshire, 24 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200563AC31205
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B4335 in Carmarthenshire, 3 June 2007
32 m awayRef 200763AC29207
Serious
Van crash on the B4335 in Carmarthenshire, 16 August 1981
108 m awayRef 19816381B0275
Slight
Car crash on the B4335 in Carmarthenshire, 18 December 2004
233 m awayRef 200463AC45404
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the B4335 in Carmarthenshire, 14 August 2000
233 m awayRef 200063MM15400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
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 200763AC41307 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 2007.