B4318 crash in Pembrokeshire on 20 August 2023 at 00:30 involving a KTM 125 Duke motorcycle
A KTM 125 Duke motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire at 00:30 on Sunday 20 August 2023. The 25-year-old male rider of the KTM 125 Duke motorcycle 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 Aug 2023
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- KTM 125 Duke and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68899, longitude -4.7809, in the SA70 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023631343512
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4318
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1990.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire, 5 August 1990
32 m awayRef 199063C528490
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire, 24 June 1991
32 m awayRef 199163C519391
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire, 14 May 2025
62 m awayRef 2025631591807
Slight
Car crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire, 3 October 1989
80 m awayRef 198963C536389
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire, 11 July 1982
110 m awayRef 19826382C0223
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B4318 in Pembrokeshire, 19 March 1995
113 m awayRef 199563C507095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: KTM 125 Duke
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (KTM 125 Duke)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2023631343512 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 2023.