B4578 crash in Ceredigion on 5 April 2010 at 23:00 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the B4578 in Ceredigion at 23:00 on Monday 5 April 2010. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2010
- Monday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.23183, longitude -3.98906, in the SY25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201063BC05610
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4578
- 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, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 1 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201063BC05710
Slight
Car crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 27 January 2002
22 m awayRef 200263BC01402
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A482 in Ceredigion, 10 June 1994
142 m awayRef 199463B521494
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 22 April 2001
334 m awayRef 200163BC00801
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4578 in Ceredigion, 12 August 1985
679 m awayRef 19856385B0304
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 1 May 2003
700 m awayRef 200363BC08903
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
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 201063BC05610 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.