A4068 crash in Carmarthenshire on 1 August 2009 at 17:49 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire at 17:49 on Saturday 1 August 2009. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2009
- Saturday, 17:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81173, longitude -3.85618, in the SA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brynamman.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200963AC27409
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 26 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199963ER13899
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 15 September 1997
22 m awayRef 199763A526197
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 7 July 2007
22 m awayRef 200763AC28807
Slight
Car crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 21 August 1984
40 m awayRef 19846384A0300
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 31 August 2004
45 m awayRef 200463AC38704
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4068 in Carmarthenshire, 22 October 2002
54 m awayRef 200263AC46202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200963AC27409 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2009.