A487 crash in Ceredigion on 18 August 2007 at 20:40 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 20:40 on Saturday 18 August 2007. The 30-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2007
- Saturday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31464, longitude -4.13303, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200763BC16007
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2014.
Slight
Audi S3 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 21 December 2014
32 m awayRef 201463BC18314
Slight
Van crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 February 1984
50 m awayRef 19846384B0058
Serious
Daihatsu Fourtrak crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 31 August 1993
50 m awayRef 199363B529993
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 17 November 2004
51 m awayRef 200463BC23404
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 17 July 1999
63 m awayRef 199963AA11299
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 22 October 2007
73 m awayRef 200763BC22007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 200763BC16007 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.