Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 9 December 1995 at 11:30 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 11:30 on Saturday 9 December 1995. The 53-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 37-year-old male passenger 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
- 9 Dec 1995
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.27096, longitude -4.19244, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199563B540895
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 7 February 1999
10 m awayRef 199963AA01699
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199263B519392
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 31 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199463B536194
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 13 July 2024
10 m awayRef 2024631467434
Serious
Skoda Yeti crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 15 January 2025
18 m awayRef 2025631542086
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 5 January 1996
41 m awayRef 199663B500896
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199563B540895 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 1995.