A44 crash in Ceredigion on 15 October 2001 at 13:06 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Volvo S80 were involved in a crash on the A44 in Ceredigion at 13:06 on Monday 15 October 2001. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2001
- Monday, 13:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Volvo S80
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41444, longitude -3.88551, 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
- 200163BC14701
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2012.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 15 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201263BC03412
Serious
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 16 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023631342517
Serious
Ducati Multistrada 1200 crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 9 August 2020
10 m awayRef 202063B049620
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 18 March 1994
50 m awayRef 199463B508794
Serious
Minibus crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 16 July 1983
63 m awayRef 19836383B0270
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 15 October 2001
63 m awayRef 200163BC14901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo S80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,922 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200163BC14701 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.