B4346 crash in Ceredigion on 7 March 2012 at 22:12 involving a Toyota Avensis taxi
A Toyota Avensis taxi hit a pedestrian on the B4346 in Ceredigion at 22:12 on Wednesday 7 March 2012. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2012
- Wednesday, 22:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41287, longitude -4.08572, in the SY23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aberystwyth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aberystwyth Morfa a Glais, Ceredigion, SY23 1LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263BC03212
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4346
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2005.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 30 March 2005
10 m awayRef 200563BC05105
Serious
Taxi crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 September 2015
10 m awayRef 201563BC11215
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 25 June 2021
11 m awayRef 202163B041621
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 20 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199763B532897
Serious
Daihatsu Terios crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 19 February 2003
32 m awayRef 200363BC03303
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 20 September 1988
45 m awayRef 198863B536488
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201263BC03212 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 2012.