A478 crash in Pembrokeshire on 25 November 2020 at 06:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire at 06:55 on Wednesday 25 November 2020. The 58-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2020
- Wednesday, 06:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.97416, longitude -4.64665, in the SA41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063C079920
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1997.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 18 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199763B506197
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Pembrokeshire, 10 January 1995
14 m awayRef 199563B500795
Slight
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 20 May 1996
22 m awayRef 199663B517196
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 22 June 2013
22 m awayRef 201363CP08913
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Pembrokeshire, 21 August 2018
22 m awayRef 201863C078018
Slight
Isuzu crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 1 December 2006
28 m awayRef 200663CP35606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 670 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 202063C079920 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.