Unclassified road crash in Carmarthenshire SA15 on 26 November 2014 at 17:37 involving a Sym Jet motorcycle
A Sym Jet motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire at 17:37 on Wednesday 26 November 2014. The 39-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
- 26 Nov 2014
- Wednesday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Sym Jet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68979, longitude -4.19019, in the SA15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hengoed, Carmarthenshire, SA15 4PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463AC40314
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2011.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 16 March 2011
108 m awayRef 201163AC08411
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 20 July 2014
134 m awayRef 201463AC20714
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 29 August 2013
170 m awayRef 201363AC26913
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 22 August 1984
358 m awayRef 19846384A0302
Serious
Taxi crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 5 May 1986
418 m awayRef 19866386A0136
Serious
Car crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 25 October 1981
418 m awayRef 19816381A0380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Sym Jet
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)
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 201463AC40314 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2014.