Serious A484 crash in Carmarthenshire on 7 January 1996 at 22:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A484 in Carmarthenshire at 22:00 on Sunday 7 January 1996. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jan 1996
- Sunday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71901, longitude -4.30071, in the SA16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199663A500496
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 484
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 17 July 2001
30 m awayRef 200163AC17701
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 18 August 2002
51 m awayRef 200263AC35602
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 10 April 1994
81 m awayRef 199463A510694
Serious
MAN crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 6 June 2025
128 m awayRef 2025631599563
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 21 June 1994
206 m awayRef 199463A520094
Fatal
MG Maestro crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 13 September 1992
206 m awayRef 199263A528792
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199663A500496 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 1996.