Serious B4317 crash in Carmarthenshire on 14 October 1981 at 08:50 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B4317 in Carmarthenshire at 08:50 on Wednesday 14 October 1981. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Oct 1981
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71172, longitude -4.27819, in the SA16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19816381A0366
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4317
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 28 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199263A514992
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B4317 in Carmarthenshire, 14 October 2019
20 m awayRef 201963A098119
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the B4317 in Carmarthenshire, 1 June 2012
41 m awayRef 201263AC21612
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B4317 in Carmarthenshire, 5 March 2017
50 m awayRef 201763AC07017
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4317 in Carmarthenshire, 5 July 2010
57 m awayRef 201063AC26910
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4317 in Carmarthenshire, 22 June 2008
64 m awayRef 200863AC25608
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19816381A0366 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 1981.