Serious C road crash in Carmarthenshire SA15 on 31 July 1993 at 02:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on a C road in Carmarthenshire at 02:40 on Saturday 31 July 1993. The 21-year-old male driver, a 21-year-old male passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jul 1993
- Saturday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67419, longitude -4.17072, in the SA15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199363A522693
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199363A522693 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 1993.