B4459 crash in Carmarthenshire on 20 August 2002 at 18:33 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the B4459 in Carmarthenshire at 18:33 on Tuesday 20 August 2002. The 36-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2002
- Tuesday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99824, longitude -4.26626, in the SA39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200263AC36002
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4459
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the B4459 in Carmarthenshire, 4 November 2013
30 m awayRef 201363AC46113
Slight
Van crash on the B4559 in Carmarthenshire, 23 September 2008
32 m awayRef 200863AC42808
Slight
Kia Pride crash on the B4459 in Carmarthenshire, 2 December 2003
41 m awayRef 200363AC53503
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 26 January 2011
41 m awayRef 201163AC04811
Slight
Car crash on the B4459 in Carmarthenshire, 18 October 1989
45 m awayRef 198963B541089
Slight
Car crash on the B4459 in Carmarthenshire, 17 January 1987
63 m awayRef 198763B001987
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200263AC36002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2002.