Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 5 April 2007 at 14:50 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina hit a pedestrian on the A487 in Ceredigion at 14:50 on Thursday 5 April 2007. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Apr 2007
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24244, longitude -4.25877, in the SA46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberaeron. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberaeron and Aberarth, Ceredigion, SA46 0AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200763BC04707
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200663BC24706
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 3 April 2025
8 m awayRef 2025631575653
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 June 1994
10 m awayRef 199463B521394
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 July 2015
14 m awayRef 201563BC10115
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 12 April 2007
14 m awayRef 200763BC06507
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 7 August 2004
14 m awayRef 200463BC16604
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200763BC04707 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.