B4342 crash in Ceredigion on 24 December 2002 at 20:30 involving a Suzuki SJ
A Suzuki SJ crashed on the B4342 in Ceredigion at 20:30 on Tuesday 24 December 2002. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SJ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20227, longitude -4.30824, in the SA47 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200263BC27202
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 440 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 28 August 1981
440 m awayRef 19816381B0296
Slight
Bedford crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 8 January 1990
456 m awayRef 199063B501390
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 2 December 1990
492 m awayRef 199063B556890
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 January 1991
492 m awayRef 199163B504091
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 October 1989
540 m awayRef 198963B542489
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 15 October 1982
540 m awayRef 19826382B0403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SJ
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki SJ)
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 200263BC27202 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.