A486 crash in Ceredigion on 26 October 2002 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on the A486 in Ceredigion at 16:00 on Saturday 26 October 2002. The 21-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2002
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04057, longitude -4.30909, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200263BC22702
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 486
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 9 September 1998
22 m awayRef 199863MM20498
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the B4624 in Ceredigion, 8 August 2016
36 m awayRef 201663BC12916
Serious
Car crash on the B4476 in Ceredigion, 4 July 1984
50 m awayRef 19846384B0247
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4624 in Ceredigion, 31 August 2018
63 m awayRef 201863B082518
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 28 July 2001
64 m awayRef 200163BC09401
Slight
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 6 January 1983
67 m awayRef 19836383B0001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200263BC22702 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.