Serious B4342 crash in Ceredigion on 9 August 2020 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4342 in Ceredigion at 17:20 on Sunday 9 August 2020. The 62-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
- 9 Aug 2020
- Sunday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17839, longitude -4.20048, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063B050020
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4342
- 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, 185 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2025.
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 17 July 2025
185 m awayRef 2025631617649
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 22 June 1982
446 m awayRef 19826382B0211
Serious
Car crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 4 April 2023
582 m awayRef 202363B026223
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Ceredigion, 9 March 1995
650 m awayRef 199563B508295
Slight
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 16 February 2016
825 m awayRef 201663BC02616
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 28 November 1991
857 m awayRef 199163B551891
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,064 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 202063B050020 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 2020.