Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 13 October 2007 at 19:39 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a car were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 19:39 on Saturday 13 October 2007. A 52-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Renault Clio and a 53-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Renault Clio were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Oct 2007
- Saturday, 19:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.24506, longitude -4.25304, in the SA46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200763BC21207
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2022.
Slight
Scania crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 30 November 2022
1 m awayRef 202263B100422
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 May 1997
20 m awayRef 199763B520897
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 25 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200463BC19704
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 18 July 1996
36 m awayRef 199663B524896
Slight
Lorry crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 February 1986
45 m awayRef 19866386B0059
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 15 December 1992
63 m awayRef 199263B552592
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200763BC21207 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.