A486 crash in Ceredigion on 17 January 2004 at 22:16 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia crashed on the A486 in Ceredigion at 22:16 on Saturday 17 January 2004. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2004
- Saturday, 22:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20854, longitude -4.36844, in the SA45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200463BC01004
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 486
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 March 1995.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 28 March 1995
14 m awayRef 199563B511295
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 24 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199963AA15399
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 9 October 2009
40 m awayRef 200963BC18209
Serious
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 24 September 1999
151 m awayRef 199963AA17399
Slight
Bus crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 9 September 2006
153 m awayRef 200663BC22506
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 19 September 1990
153 m awayRef 199063B546990
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
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 200463BC01004 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 2004.