Serious A486 crash in Ceredigion on 28 January 1992 at 08:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A486 in Ceredigion at 08:30 on Tuesday 28 January 1992. The 42-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 1992
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09034, longitude -4.36751, 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
- 199263B502292
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 486
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 4 February 2015
36 m awayRef 201563BC04615
Slight
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 23 January 2006
91 m awayRef 200663BC01706
Slight
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 23 June 2006
91 m awayRef 200663BC09406
Slight
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 21 August 1987
100 m awayRef 198763B527987
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 15 September 2005
100 m awayRef 200563BC20505
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 3 November 2022
219 m awayRef 202263B091322
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 199263B502292 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 1992.