B4308 crash in Carmarthenshire on 8 October 1980 at 15:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire at 15:00 on Wednesday 8 October 1980. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 1980
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73224, longitude -4.28646, in the SA17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19806380A0376
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4308
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1986.
Slight
Bus crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 22 May 1986
At the same spotRef 19866386A0161
Slight
Car crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 27 March 1989
141 m awayRef 198963A510589
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 6 July 2004
153 m awayRef 200463AC30204
Slight
Van crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 2 April 2023
168 m awayRef 202363A025323
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 13 April 2016
190 m awayRef 201663AC09816
Slight
Car crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 5 October 2012
190 m awayRef 201263AC33512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19806380A0376 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 1980.