Serious A485 crash in Carmarthenshire on 16 November 2005 at 11:41 involving a Mitsubishi Shogun
A Mitsubishi Shogun hit a pedestrian on the A485 in Carmarthenshire at 11:41 on Wednesday 16 November 2005. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 2005
- Wednesday, 11:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Shogun
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85603, longitude -4.30485, in the SA31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carmarthen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carmarthen Town North and South, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563AC54205
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 485
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2007.
Slight
Yamaha SR 125 crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 11 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200763AC43707
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 21 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199763B533597
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 10 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025631680853
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 17 June 1989
32 m awayRef 198963B520989
Slight
Daihatsu Charmant crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 27 July 1992
32 m awayRef 199263B528292
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 20 February 1980
32 m awayRef 19806380B0052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200563AC54205 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2005.