A44 crash in Ceredigion on 29 October 2008 at 07:57 involving a Harley-Davidson FLHT motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson FLHT motorcycle crashed on the A44 in Ceredigion at 07:57 on Wednesday 29 October 2008. The 61-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 07:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Harley-Davidson FLHT
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41736, longitude -3.82549, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200863BC18708
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 August 2023.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 5 August 2023
54 m awayRef 2023631338562
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 24 June 1999
95 m awayRef 199963AA10199
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 14 June 2011
122 m awayRef 201163BC08511
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 16 June 2001
150 m awayRef 200163BC05001
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 29 December 1997
166 m awayRef 199763B547597
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 27 July 2019
206 m awayRef 201963B065719
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson FLHT
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson FLHT)
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 200863BC18708 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.