A478 crash in Pembrokeshire on 1 July 2012 at 11:54 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire at 11:54 on Sunday 1 July 2012. A 52-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 11:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76851, longitude -4.73756, in the SA67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263CP16912
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 478
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 July 1992.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 18 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199263C522892
Slight
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 17 February 1988
14 m awayRef 198863C505088
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 14 February 2004
14 m awayRef 200463CP06504
Serious
Car crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 3 March 1979
14 m awayRef 19796379C0069
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A478 in Pembrokeshire, 18 August 2007
22 m awayRef 200763CP24607
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4115 in Pembrokeshire, 14 July 2004
30 m awayRef 200463CP24804
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- 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 201263CP16912 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 2012.