B4556 crash in Carmarthenshire on 27 October 2002 at 03:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire at 03:00 on Sunday 27 October 2002. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2002
- Sunday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80531, longitude -4.02708, in the SA18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200263AC46002
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4556
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 December 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 5 December 1985
40 m awayRef 19856385A0420
Serious
Car crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 8 May 1981
40 m awayRef 19816381A0139
Serious
Car crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 14 July 1979
60 m awayRef 19796379A0278
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 5 August 2017
63 m awayRef 201763A074417
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 7 August 1997
73 m awayRef 199763A522597
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 4 December 2020
76 m awayRef 202063AF01420
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200263AC46002 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.