Serious A485 crash in Ceredigion on 11 October 2015 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A485 in Ceredigion at 16:00 on Sunday 11 October 2015. The 54-year-old male rider 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
- 11 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19617, longitude -3.97205, in the SY25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563BC15015
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 485
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2008.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 20 October 2008
14 m awayRef 200863BC18408
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 3 October 2004
22 m awayRef 200463BC20604
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 4 March 1993
61 m awayRef 199363B507393
Serious
Lorry crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 28 April 1983
214 m awayRef 19836383B0132
Serious
Suzuki GSX 600 crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 3 April 2008
243 m awayRef 200863BC04708
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Ceredigion, 5 February 2004
282 m awayRef 200463BC04504
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 201563BC15015 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 2015.