Serious A475 crash in Ceredigion on 7 September 2001 at 15:55 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the A475 in Ceredigion at 15:55 on Friday 7 September 2001. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Sep 2001
- Friday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04999, longitude -4.38702, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200163BC12501
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 475
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2024.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 26 January 2024
60 m awayRef 2024631403114
Slight
Car crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 7 March 1989
184 m awayRef 198963B507889
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 22 December 2018
234 m awayRef 201863B122318
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Ceredigion, 17 September 1993
283 m awayRef 199363B533193
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 19 November 1982
316 m awayRef 19826382B0456
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 16 February 2020
374 m awayRef 202063B013920
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200163BC12501 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.