A487 crash in Ceredigion on 28 August 2000 at 21:05 involving a Ford Escort
A bicycle and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 21:05 on Monday 28 August 2000. The 45-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and a 49-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2000
- Monday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19251, longitude -4.31066, in the SA47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200063AA14400
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4342
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2008.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200863BC20008
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 14 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200363BC20703
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 14 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201463BC09414
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 11 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200463BC09404
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 10 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201463BC14614
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199763B545997
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200063AA14400 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.