Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF32 on 20 April 2021 at 21:38 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 21:38 on Tuesday 20 April 2021. The 32-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2021
- Tuesday, 21:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54768, longitude -3.60957, in the CF32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bridgend
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021622100286
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 282 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 18 June 2003
282 m awayRef 2003620087078
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 28 December 1996
291 m awayRef 199662F047396
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bridgend, 19 December 1981
294 m awayRef 1981620F04300
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bridgend, 2 May 1980
346 m awayRef 1980620F02050
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 5 August 1992
346 m awayRef 1992620F02620
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 15 February 2006
348 m awayRef 2006620147302
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2021622100286 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 2021.