B4308 crash in Carmarthenshire on 5 October 2012 at 21:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire at 21:00 on Friday 5 October 2012. The 36-year-old male driver, a 14-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2012
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.73161, longitude -4.2891, in the SA17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263AC33512
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4308
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2016.
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 13 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201663AC09816
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 6 July 2007
22 m awayRef 200763AC40207
Slight
Van crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 2 April 2023
27 m awayRef 202363A025323
Slight
Car crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 27 March 1989
89 m awayRef 198963A510589
Slight
Bus crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 22 May 1986
190 m awayRef 19866386A0161
Slight
Car crash on the B4308 in Carmarthenshire, 8 October 1980
190 m awayRef 19806380A0376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201263AC33512 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.