B4340 crash in Ceredigion on 5 September 2011 at 22:15 involving a Mitsubishi Colt
A Mitsubishi Colt crashed on the B4340 in Ceredigion at 22:15 on Monday 5 September 2011. An 18-year-old female passenger, an 18-year-old female passenger and a 16-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2011
- Monday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34339, longitude -3.95839, 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
- 201163BC13511
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4340
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 32%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 68%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B4340 in Ceredigion, 6 February 2005
10 m awayRef 200563BC01905
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4340 in Ceredigion, 18 June 2024
14 m awayRef 2024631456949
Serious
Car crash on the B4340 in Ceredigion, 9 August 1980
14 m awayRef 19806380B0268
Serious
Honda CB crash on the B4340 in Ceredigion, 26 October 2023
63 m awayRef 2023631367452
Slight
Van crash on the B4340 in Ceredigion, 1 June 2018
98 m awayRef 201863B049118
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4340 in Ceredigion, 31 March 2006
132 m awayRef 200663BC05406
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
- 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 201163BC13511 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.