A motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital after a crash outside Bow Street yesterday [Wednesday, 5 August] which closed the A487 for several hours.

Dyfed-Powys Police said that officers and other emergency services attended a single-vehicle collision involving a motorbike on the A487 between Aberystwyth and Bow Street at around 1.20pm on Wednesday.

The motorcycle rider was taken to hospital by air ambulance.

The collision occurred just after the railway bridge on the outskirts of Bow Street, with the A487 closed in both directions between Bow Street and the top of Penglais Hill in Aberystwyth while emergency services dealt with the incident.

The road reopened at 4.35pm.