Serious A486 crash in Ceredigion on 9 August 2012 at 12:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A486 in Ceredigion at 12:00 on Thursday 9 August 2012. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.15896, longitude -4.33393, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263BC12512
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 486
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 February 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 10 February 1981
64 m awayRef 19816381B0044
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 5 April 1991
64 m awayRef 199163B514191
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 14 January 2014
92 m awayRef 201463BC00814
Slight
Car crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 3 April 2015
92 m awayRef 201563BC05815
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 11 March 1997
102 m awayRef 199763B510297
Slight
Honda crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 1 July 2017
112 m awayRef 201763B065517
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 201263BC12512 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.