Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 15 August 2008 at 00:07 involving a Triumph Sprint ST 1050 motorcycle
A Triumph Sprint ST 1050 motorcycle crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 00:07 on Friday 15 August 2008. The 52-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2008
- Friday, 00:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Triumph Sprint ST 1050
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31754, longitude -4.132, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200863BC14308
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 16 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201063BC18410
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 30 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201463BC12214
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 December 2005
20 m awayRef 200563BC27705
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 July 2005
20 m awayRef 200563BC15305
Serious
Foden crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 5 January 2009
22 m awayRef 200963BC00509
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 February 2007
32 m awayRef 200763BC01107
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Triumph Sprint ST 1050
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Triumph Sprint ST 1050)
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 200863BC14308 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 2008.