A487 crash in Ceredigion on 30 May 2012 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Antara
A van, a Vauxhall Antara and a car were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 16:00 on Wednesday 30 May 2012. The 49-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Antara and a 54-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Antara were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2012
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Antara and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.12277, longitude -4.4942, in the SA43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263BC09512
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2013.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 11 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201363BC07313
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 21 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199663B544996
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 10 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199463B525894
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 13 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200663BC10906
Slight
Renault Zoe crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 30 April 2025
10 m awayRef 2025631583883
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 13 April 2010
14 m awayRef 201063BC05910
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Antara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Antara)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Antara)
- 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 201263BC09512 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.