B4298 crash in Carmarthenshire on 12 December 2012 at 17:00 involving a Peugeot 208
A car and a Peugeot 208 were involved in a crash on the B4298 in Carmarthenshire at 17:00 on Wednesday 12 December 2012. The 18-year-old male driver of the car, a 17-year-old female passenger in the car and the 51-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 208 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85196, longitude -4.40513, in the SA33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Trelech, Carmarthenshire, SA33 5DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263AC45512
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4298
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2018.
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the B4298 in Carmarthenshire, 24 August 2018
10 m awayRef 201863A104018
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4298 in Carmarthenshire, 15 March 2006
14 m awayRef 200663AC10106
Slight
Car crash on the B4298 in Carmarthenshire, 15 September 1981
308 m awayRef 19816381B0323
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4298 in Carmarthenshire, 19 May 2016
318 m awayRef 201663AC14916
Serious
Skoda Favorit crash on the B4298 in Carmarthenshire, 24 February 2005
372 m awayRef 200563AC09405
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 17 August 1983
577 m awayRef 19836383B0311
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
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 201263AC45512 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.