Serious A478 crash in Pembrokeshire on 18 January 1991 at 23:30 involving a Morris Ital
A Morris Ital crashed on the A478 in Pembrokeshire at 23:30 on Friday 18 January 1991. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jan 1991
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Morris Ital
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.98832, longitude -4.64033, in the SA37 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199163B503091
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 478
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 30 June 1979
At the same spotRef 19796379B0230
Slight
Morris Ital crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 1 May 1990
100 m awayRef 199063B520790
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 9 November 1994
113 m awayRef 199463B546694
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 18 January 2006
120 m awayRef 200663CP02906
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 9 December 2025
121 m awayRef 2025631680925
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 30 March 2024
152 m awayRef 2024631426291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Morris Ital
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Morris Ital)
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 199163B503091 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 1991.