Serious A478 crash in Pembrokeshire on 12 April 2010 at 11:42 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda CBR900RR motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire at 11:42 on Monday 12 April 2010. The 36-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR900RR 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
- 12 Apr 2010
- Monday, 11:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda CBR900RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81746, longitude -4.72892, in the SA67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201063CP13310
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 478
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 February 2005.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 11 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200563CP09105
Slight
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 3 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201563CP03415
Serious
Ford New Holland crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 10 September 1996
32 m awayRef 199663C525896
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 31 October 2023
68 m awayRef 2023631372049
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 13 May 2006
81 m awayRef 200663CP11806
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 20 December 1994
82 m awayRef 199463C537694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR900RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 918 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR900RR)
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 201063CP13310 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 2010.