A475 crash in Ceredigion on 7 December 2013 at 22:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A475 in Ceredigion at 22:50 on Saturday 7 December 2013. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2013
- Saturday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10496, longitude -4.13265, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201363BC19013
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 475
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 May 1999.
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 2 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199963AA07699
Serious
Car crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 6 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201063BC05310
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 15 October 2013
63 m awayRef 201363BC15513
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 7 July 1984
92 m awayRef 19846384B0256
Serious
Volvo crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 23 February 2016
133 m awayRef 201663BC01616
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 11 December 1996
143 m awayRef 199663B545596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201363BC19013 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 2013.