A4159 crash in Ceredigion on 18 March 2011 at 21:07 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4159 in Ceredigion at 21:07 on Friday 18 March 2011. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2011
- Friday, 21:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41128, longitude -4.01168, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201163BC03911
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4159
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 44
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2010.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A4159 in Ceredigion, 3 December 2010
At the same spotRef 201063BC19810
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 18 December 2004
20 m awayRef 200463BC26804
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 6 April 2001
22 m awayRef 200163BC00501
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 24 October 2002
22 m awayRef 200263BC22002
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 2 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200063AA20800
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A44 in Ceredigion, 14 August 2002
22 m awayRef 200263BC16102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201163BC03911 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 2011.