Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA1 on 24 October 2018 at 08:09 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Swansea at 08:09 on Wednesday 24 October 2018. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 08:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62977, longitude -3.97423, in the SA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockett, Swansea, SA1 6SB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018621801482
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 1 October 1980
54 m awayRef 1980620J03690
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 25 March 1990
54 m awayRef 1990620H06730
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 12 June 1987
59 m awayRef 1987620H15430
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 30 August 1995
59 m awayRef 199562J021095
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 29 March 1989
59 m awayRef 1989620H09530
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 12 July 1990
59 m awayRef 1990620H50760
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2018621801482 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swansea road accident statistics for 2018.