Serious A478 crash in Pembrokeshire on 13 December 1995 at 19:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A478 in Pembrokeshire at 19:30 on Wednesday 13 December 1995. The 49-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 1995
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78776, longitude -4.73895, in the SA67 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199563C535895
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1997.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 3 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199763C538797
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 20 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200063PP16300
Slight
Van crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 14 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199763C522997
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 6 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199563C523495
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 23 November 2024
13 m awayRef 2024631520236
Fatal
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 9 May 2014
14 m awayRef 201463CP09914
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199563C535895 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 1995.