Serious A485 crash in Carmarthenshire on 13 March 2011 at 16:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A485 in Carmarthenshire at 16:35 on Sunday 13 March 2011. The 87-year-old male driver and an 84-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Mar 2011
- Sunday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09445, longitude -4.10178, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201163AC12711
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 485
- 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
- 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 23 March 2014.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 23 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201463AC07914
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 16 April 2012
10 m awayRef 201263AC16212
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 2 August 2013
10 m awayRef 201363AC31813
Slight
Zontes ZT crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 20 May 2025
11 m awayRef 2025631592319
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 24 January 2023
13 m awayRef 202363A007723
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 9 May 2017
14 m awayRef 201763A040417
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 201163AC12711 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 2011.