Serious A4120 crash in Ceredigion on 17 May 2001 at 03:08 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A4120 in Ceredigion at 03:08 on Thursday 17 May 2001. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2001
- Thursday, 03:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40432, longitude -4.06576, in the SY23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberystwyth Penparcau, Ceredigion, SY23 1SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200163BC02401
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2012.
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 20 March 2012
14 m awayRef 201263BC05012
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 28 September 2010
14 m awayRef 201063BC15610
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 8 February 2012
14 m awayRef 201263BC00312
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 19 October 2017
22 m awayRef 201763B101417
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 10 October 2012
32 m awayRef 201263BC20512
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A4120 in Ceredigion, 27 July 2002
32 m awayRef 200263BC15502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 200163BC02401 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 2001.