Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 28 April 2024 at 12:35 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 12:35 on Sunday 28 April 2024. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Apr 2024
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19967, longitude -4.30047, in the SA47 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llannarth, Ceredigion, SA47 0PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024631436735
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 24 July 2016.
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 July 2016
10 m awayRef 201663BC08916
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 11 September 1999
20 m awayRef 199963MM19699
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 October 2019
30 m awayRef 201963B095919
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 August 2016
31 m awayRef 201663BC12716
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 3 August 1997
60 m awayRef 199763B529897
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 13 September 2006
63 m awayRef 200663BC17006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024631436735 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 2024.