A477 crash in Pembrokeshire on 2 March 2012 at 12:16 involving a Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire at 12:16 on Friday 2 March 2012. A 29-year-old male passenger on the Suzuki GSXR 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2012
- Friday, 12:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 600 and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69215, longitude -4.92064, in the SA72 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pembroke Dock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pembroke Dock: Bush, Pembrokeshire, SA71 4RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263CP03412
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 477
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2007.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire, 29 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200763CP36407
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire, 26 September 2016
10 m awayRef 201663CP17116
Slight
Car crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire, 8 September 2015
20 m awayRef 201563CP20615
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire, 17 June 1996
20 m awayRef 199663C515996
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire, 19 August 2021
25 m awayRef 202163C062621
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A477 in Pembrokeshire, 24 February 2012
41 m awayRef 201263CP08212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 600)
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 201263CP03412 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 2012.