B4577 crash in Ceredigion on 11 August 1997 at 15:01 involving a Leyland DAF FA 60 lorry
A Leyland DAF FA 60 lorry crashed on the B4577 in Ceredigion at 15:01 on Monday 11 August 1997. The 51-year-old male driver 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
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 1997
- Monday, 15:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Leyland DAF FA 60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25532, longitude -4.14317, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199763B531697
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4577
- 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, 345 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 24 June 2006
345 m awayRef 200663BC09206
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 5 November 2008
402 m awayRef 200863BC19508
Serious
Car crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 12 June 1984
491 m awayRef 19846384B0208
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 31 August 2007
531 m awayRef 200763BC18007
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 11 October 1997
560 m awayRef 199763B540897
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 19 March 2023
561 m awayRef 202363B021823
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 60
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Leyland DAF FA 60)
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 199763B531697 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 1997.