A485 crash in Carmarthenshire on 4 September 2006 at 01:00 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera, a Daewoo Lanos and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire at 01:00 on Monday 4 September 2006. A 1-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Primera was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2006
- Monday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Primera and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86234, longitude -4.29501, 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 1GY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200663AC36206
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 17 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200263AC30202
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 14 March 1989
32 m awayRef 198963B508589
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 17 February 1980
32 m awayRef 19806380B0047
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 11 July 1998
41 m awayRef 199863MM13898
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 26 December 1998
45 m awayRef 199863MM26698
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 14 March 1997
50 m awayRef 199763B509897
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Lanos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200663AC36206 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 2006.