A486 crash in Ceredigion on 26 January 2007 at 04:00 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry crashed on the A486 in Ceredigion at 04:00 on Friday 26 January 2007. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2007
- Friday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12307, longitude -4.36156, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200763BC02907
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 486
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 19 December 1987
76 m awayRef 198763B543987
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 2 July 2014
92 m awayRef 201463BC09614
Serious
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 7 July 1985
355 m awayRef 19856385B0230
Serious
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 16 August 1985
402 m awayRef 19856385B0289
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 1 August 2002
538 m awayRef 200263BC15702
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 9 January 1992
574 m awayRef 199263B501092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,958 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 200763BC02907 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 2007.