A487 crash in Pembrokeshire on 2 January 2002 at 00:30 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the A487 in Pembrokeshire at 00:30 on Wednesday 2 January 2002. A 20-year-old male passenger, a 22-year-old female passenger and the 23-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01289, longitude -4.89821, in the SA42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200263CP00602
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1999.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 5 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199963PH20199
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 26 April 1983
14 m awayRef 19836383C0099
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 28 May 2004
14 m awayRef 200463CP15804
Serious
MAN/VW crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 16 February 1995
22 m awayRef 199563C503695
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 13 August 2015
36 m awayRef 201563CP12915
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Pembrokeshire, 9 April 2023
92 m awayRef 202363C028023
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,795 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 200263CP00602 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 2002.