Serious B4571 crash in Ceredigion on 24 June 1981 at 15:58 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4571 in Ceredigion at 15:58 on Wednesday 24 June 1981. An 8-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 41-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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 1981
- Wednesday, 15:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09346, longitude -4.39103, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19816381B0187
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4571
- 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 serious injury crash on 13 December 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 13 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198863B546588
Serious
Van crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 6 August 1981
At the same spotRef 19816381B0261
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 5 January 2006
32 m awayRef 200663BC00206
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 22 July 2016
32 m awayRef 201663BC09816
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 14 July 2023
35 m awayRef 2023631329328
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 9 July 2020
36 m awayRef 202063B039020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, 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 19816381B0187 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 1981.