A487 crash in Ceredigion on 3 November 2012 at 19:35 involving a Skoda Roomster
A Skoda Roomster crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 19:35 on Saturday 3 November 2012. The 55-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2012
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Roomster
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49587, longitude -3.98593, in the SY20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263BC23012
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2022.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 28 May 2022
6 m awayRef 202263B040822
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200963BC17809
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 6 January 2007
20 m awayRef 200763BC00407
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 22 July 2017
22 m awayRef 201763B067817
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 November 2020
30 m awayRef 202063B080120
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 March 2017
30 m awayRef 201763BC00817
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Roomster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Roomster)
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 201263BC23012 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.