A483 crash in Carmarthenshire on 23 April 2007 at 16:37 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Nissan were involved in a crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire at 16:37 on Monday 23 April 2007. The 53-year-old male driver of the Nissan was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2007
- Monday, 16:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Nissan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82693, longitude -4.00904, in the SA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200763AC15307
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 13 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200563AC38105
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 26 June 1994
51 m awayRef 199463A519894
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 9 February 1990
58 m awayRef 199063A504890
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 3 May 1984
58 m awayRef 19846384A0144
Serious
Car crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 2 October 1980
58 m awayRef 19806380A0365
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Carmarthenshire, 16 August 1996
81 m awayRef 199663A522596
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan)
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 200763AC15307 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 2007.