A475 crash in Ceredigion on 12 August 2008 at 16:33 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A475 in Ceredigion at 16:33 on Tuesday 12 August 2008. The 67-year-old female driver of the Volvo V40 and the 39-year-old female driver of the Audi A3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2008
- Tuesday, 16:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V40 and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08336, longitude -4.27276, 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
- 200863BC14108
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 475
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4458
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 May 2013.
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 6 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201363BC04313
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 7 August 2018
At the same spotRef 201863B073018
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 15 June 2009
10 m awayRef 200963BC08809
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 15 July 1994
10 m awayRef 199463B527294
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 17 April 2007
10 m awayRef 200763BC07307
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 8 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200663BC22206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V40)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
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 200863BC14108 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 2008.