A44 crash in Ceredigion on 7 August 2001 at 19:54 involving a Volvo 360
A Volvo 360 crashed on the A44 in Ceredigion at 19:54 on Tuesday 7 August 2001. The 64-year-old male driver and a 60-year-old female passenger were 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
- 7 Aug 2001
- Tuesday, 19:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 360
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40933, longitude -3.93469, 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
- 200163BC09801
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 2000.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 22 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200063AA05800
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 29 March 1998
20 m awayRef 199863AA04298
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 13 December 2002
71 m awayRef 200263BC25702
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 15 March 1997
73 m awayRef 199763B509697
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 22 August 1999
82 m awayRef 199963AA14999
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 18 November 2002
89 m awayRef 200263BC23802
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 360
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 360)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 360)
- 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 200163BC09801 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.