A487 crash in Ceredigion on 1 August 2005 at 23:33 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 23:33 on Monday 1 August 2005. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2005
- Monday, 23:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.533, longitude -3.94838, in the SY20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563BC16405
- 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
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1996.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 11 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199663B536396
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 June 2021
13 m awayRef 202163B057921
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 19 March 2019
20 m awayRef 201963B020819
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 20 November 1995
32 m awayRef 199563B538495
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 September 2025
40 m awayRef 2025631647347
Slight
Leyland crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 June 1993
45 m awayRef 199363B520793
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200563BC16405 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.