A482 crash in Carmarthenshire on 8 January 2012 at 02:30 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on the A482 in Carmarthenshire at 02:30 on Sunday 8 January 2012. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08547, longitude -4.05027, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263AC00512
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 482
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2015.
Slight
HGV crash on the A482 in Carmarthenshire, 23 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201563AC01315
Serious
John Deere crash on the A482 in Carmarthenshire, 16 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201063AC16010
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A482 in Carmarthenshire, 28 August 2011
10 m awayRef 201163AC33611
Slight
Proton Wira crash on the A482 in Carmarthenshire, 5 December 2013
14 m awayRef 201363AC44913
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A482 in Carmarthenshire, 2 October 2007
14 m awayRef 200763AC42207
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A482 in Carmarthenshire, 13 July 2010
14 m awayRef 201063AC28910
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
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 201263AC00512 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 2012.