Serious B4346 crash in Ceredigion on 1 April 2021 at 13:15 involving a BMW S 1000 motorcycle
A BMW S 1000 motorcycle crashed on the B4346 in Ceredigion at 13:15 on Thursday 1 April 2021. The 51-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Apr 2021
- Thursday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW S 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34335, longitude -3.84272, in the SY25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202163B014221
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4346
- 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
- Other
- 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, 35 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 25 October 1985
35 m awayRef 19856385B0402
Serious
BMW R 1200 crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 27 October 2018
56 m awayRef 201863B103618
Serious
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 4 August 1981
166 m awayRef 19816381B0281
Serious
Car crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 28 July 1981
166 m awayRef 19816381B0238
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 23 August 2016
246 m awayRef 201663BC11616
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4343 in Ceredigion, 6 February 2014
535 m awayRef 201463BC00314
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW S 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW S 1000)
- 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 202163B014221 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 2021.