Serious A482 crash in Ceredigion on 26 January 2005 at 15:18 involving a car
A car crashed on the A482 in Ceredigion at 15:18 on Wednesday 26 January 2005. The 79-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jan 2005
- Wednesday, 15:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22836, longitude -4.2519, in the SA46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563BC02005
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 482
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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 29 March 1991.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 29 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199163B510991
Slight
Honda VF500F crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 30 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199263B528592
Serious
MAN crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 3 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200263BC20902
Serious
Car crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 5 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198863B538788
Slight
Car crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 5 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198963B504789
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 30 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200563BC12705
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200563BC02005 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 2005.