Serious B4337 crash in Carmarthenshire on 4 March 1990 at 17:00 involving a Ford Capri
A Ford Capri crashed on the B4337 in Carmarthenshire at 17:00 on Sunday 4 March 1990. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Mar 1990
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Capri
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06589, longitude -4.14152, in the SA40 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199063B512190
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4337
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 3 June 1983
141 m awayRef 19836383B0184
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 19 April 2022
223 m awayRef 202263A026822
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 3 March 1988
361 m awayRef 198863B506088
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 3 December 2006
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4337 in Carmarthenshire, 9 December 2012
619 m awayRef 201263AC46112
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B4337 in Carmarthenshire, 15 August 1997
620 m awayRef 199763B532097
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Capri
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Capri)
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 199063B512190 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 1990.