B4570 crash in Ceredigion on 8 April 2011 at 20:55 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the B4570 in Ceredigion at 20:55 on Friday 8 April 2011. The 49-year-old female 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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2011
- Friday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.05436, longitude -4.50148, in the SA38 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201163BC04911
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4570
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2025.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B4570 in Ceredigion, 4 November 2025
71 m awayRef 2025631663718
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4570 in Ceredigion, 20 April 2003
158 m awayRef 200363BC07003
Slight
Car crash on the B4570 in Ceredigion, 2 October 1997
250 m awayRef 199763B540097
Slight
MG Metro crash on the B4570 in Ceredigion, 27 December 1990
290 m awayRef 199063B560090
Serious
MG ZR crash on the B4570 in Ceredigion, 29 September 2010
291 m awayRef 201063BC16910
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B4570 in Ceredigion, 16 September 2013
329 m awayRef 201363BC12613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 201163BC04911 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.