B4578 crash in Ceredigion on 1 July 2000 at 20:04 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Volkswagen were involved in a crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion at 20:04 on Saturday 1 July 2000. The 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat and the 50-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen were 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
- 1 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 20:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Volkswagen
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2447, longitude -3.98802, in the SY25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200063AA10800
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4578
- 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 18 May 1989
32 m awayRef 198963B513189
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 19 December 2000
51 m awayRef 200063AA22700
Serious
Car crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 14 June 1979
95 m awayRef 19796379B0214
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 18 July 2008
222 m awayRef 200863BC11708
Slight
Car crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 10 June 2002
340 m awayRef 200263BC11102
Slight
DS DS3 crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 10 October 2022
374 m awayRef 202263B083622
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen)
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 200063AA10800 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 2000.