Serious A475 crash in Ceredigion on 6 February 2010 at 21:43 involving a car
A car crashed on the A475 in Ceredigion at 21:43 on Saturday 6 February 2010. The 68-year-old male driver and a 25-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 2010
- Saturday, 21:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.10495, longitude -4.13279, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201063BC05310
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 2013.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 7 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201363BC19013
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 2 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199963AA07699
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 15 October 2013
73 m awayRef 201363BC15513
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 7 July 1984
99 m awayRef 19846384B0256
Serious
Volvo crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 23 February 2016
124 m awayRef 201663BC01616
Slight
Car crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 25 September 1986
148 m awayRef 19866386B0325
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201063BC05310 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 2010.