Serious A4159 crash in Ceredigion on 4 January 2006 at 22:45 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova crashed on the A4159 in Ceredigion at 22:45 on Wednesday 4 January 2006. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jan 2006
- Wednesday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41705, longitude -4.01591, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200663BC00106
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4159
- 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
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, 75 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2023.
Serious
Kia Ceed crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 23 December 2023
75 m awayRef 2023631391701
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 6 September 2017
110 m awayRef 201763B085617
Serious
Proton Persona crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 20 March 2009
140 m awayRef 200963BC04009
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 6 August 1991
326 m awayRef 199163B536391
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 23 August 2008
347 m awayRef 200863BC14408
Fatal
Car crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 19 March 2015
357 m awayRef 201563BC02815
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 200663BC00106 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 2006.