B4556 crash in Carmarthenshire on 12 December 2011 at 07:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire at 07:15 on Monday 12 December 2011. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2011
- Monday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80626, longitude -4.01886, in the SA18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201163AC49511
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4556
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2019.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 20 November 2019
22 m awayRef 201963A109519
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 4 February 2012
30 m awayRef 201263AC03812
Slight
Car crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 1 February 1987
91 m awayRef 198763A002487
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 28 June 1995
104 m awayRef 199563A519495
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 23 March 2007
108 m awayRef 200763AC14607
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4556 in Carmarthenshire, 8 August 1997
114 m awayRef 199763A524297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201163AC49511 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.