A4120 crash in Ceredigion on 23 September 1999 at 00:05 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A4120 in Ceredigion at 00:05 on Thursday 23 September 1999. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 1999
- Thursday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39035, longitude -3.98883, 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
- 199963AA17899
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4120
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 180 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2002.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 13 July 2002
180 m awayRef 200263BC13502
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 31 July 1991
260 m awayRef 199163B532791
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 4 June 1991
260 m awayRef 199163B523991
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 11 September 2009
321 m awayRef 200963BC15709
Slight
Car crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 9 July 1987
360 m awayRef 198763B523387
Slight
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 24 April 2022
458 m awayRef 202263B028422
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,098 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 199963AA17899 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 1999.