A487 crash in Ceredigion on 1 February 2005 at 13:15 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 13:15 on Tuesday 1 February 2005. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2005
- Tuesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19697, longitude -4.30329, in the SA47 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llannarth, Ceredigion, SA47 0PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563BC02205
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- 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
- 30 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 18 April 2013
64 m awayRef 201363BC04713
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 13 November 2025
99 m awayRef 2025631668028
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 June 1985
122 m awayRef 19856385B0167
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 14 July 1992
122 m awayRef 199263B526892
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 May 2004
142 m awayRef 200463BC11104
Serious
Peugeot Horizon crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 18 June 2023
166 m awayRef 2023631320027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200563BC02205 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.