Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 2 December 2010 at 18:04 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery and a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 18:04 on Thursday 2 December 2010. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Dec 2010
- Thursday, 18:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Discovery and Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41602, longitude -4.08028, in the SY23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberystwyth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberystwyth Morfa a Glais, Ceredigion, SY23 1LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201063BC19610
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 15 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200563BC23705
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 12 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201663BC04616
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 4 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200263BC00402
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 23 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200963BC17109
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 29 April 2023
4 m awayRef 202363B033523
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 5 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025631665321
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 201063BC19610 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 2010.