B4343 crash in Ceredigion on 11 August 2002 at 21:33 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B4343 in Ceredigion at 21:33 on Sunday 11 August 2002. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 2002
- Sunday, 21:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26308, longitude -4.13056, 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
- 200263BC16202
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4343
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1980.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 3 October 1980
100 m awayRef 19806380B0364
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 7 March 2002
110 m awayRef 200263BC04202
Slight
Lada Samara crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 17 December 2002
114 m awayRef 200263BC26202
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 5 June 2002
130 m awayRef 200263BC10402
Slight
Car crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 14 February 1982
135 m awayRef 19826382B0038
Serious
Volvo crash on the B4337 in Ceredigion, 30 May 1991
190 m awayRef 199163B521491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 200263BC16202 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 2002.