Serious A4069 crash in Carmarthenshire on 15 October 2017 at 16:30 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
A Honda CBR125R motorcycle, a motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire at 16:30 on Sunday 15 October 2017. The 36-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda CBR125R and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83243, longitude -3.86324, in the SA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201763A100017
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4069
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 150 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2004.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 24 April 2004
150 m awayRef 200463AC16704
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 18 October 2020
241 m awayRef 202063A072120
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 7 July 2019
241 m awayRef 201963A084519
Fatal
KTM 125 Duke crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 22 March 2019
282 m awayRef 201963AF01119
Serious
Renault 19 crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 16 July 1998
306 m awayRef 199863ER12598
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 23 June 2022
425 m awayRef 202263A048522
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
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 201763A100017 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 2017.