Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF31 on 8 March 2014 at 13:11 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 13:11 on Saturday 8 March 2014. The 28-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 2014
- Saturday, 13:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 1000 and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51755, longitude -3.59091, in the CF31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgend Central, Bridgend, CF31 1YZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014621400461
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 29 December 2002
8 m awayRef 2002620075055
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 17 September 1997
65 m awayRef 199762F033197
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bridgend, 10 February 1980
69 m awayRef 1980620F00570
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 18 January 2005
145 m awayRef 2005620126246
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 16 May 1997
151 m awayRef 199762F023897
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 10 September 1991
157 m awayRef 1991620F03100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2014621400461 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2014.