A478 crash in Pembrokeshire on 22 March 2020 at 18:05 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A478 in Pembrokeshire at 18:05 on Sunday 22 March 2020. The 52-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2020
- Sunday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78868, longitude -4.74251, in the SA67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063C023720
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 478
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 122 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2009.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 21 January 2009
122 m awayRef 200963CP02809
Slight
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 14 June 2002
156 m awayRef 200263CP17102
Slight
Peugeot Premier crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 5 January 2025
159 m awayRef 2025631538306
Serious
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 23 May 1988
219 m awayRef 198863C515088
Slight
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 23 July 1993
219 m awayRef 199363C522293
Slight
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 25 June 1985
219 m awayRef 19856385C0190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 202063C023720 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 2020.