B4576 crash in Ceredigion on 8 November 2008 at 12:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion at 12:30 on Saturday 8 November 2008. The 40-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2008
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3482, longitude -4.06623, 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
- 200863BC19908
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4576
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 78 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1990.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion, 12 October 1990
78 m awayRef 199063B547290
Serious
Car crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion, 12 September 1981
168 m awayRef 19816381B0308
Fatal
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion, 29 April 2022
358 m awayRef 202263BF00522
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion, 6 March 1993
361 m awayRef 199363B507493
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion, 16 March 2019
489 m awayRef 201963B019519
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4576 in Ceredigion, 30 May 1995
553 m awayRef 199563B517095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- 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
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,130 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200863BC19908 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.