A484 crash in Carmarthenshire on 16 August 2013 at 16:20 involving a Ford Focus
Four vehicles, including a car and a Ford Focus, were involved in a crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire at 16:20 on Friday 16 August 2013. A 68-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and a 6-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2013
- Friday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68925, longitude -4.21447, in the SA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pwll.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201363AC26713
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 484
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1991.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 17 December 1991
42 m awayRef 199163A542291
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 30 March 1979
42 m awayRef 19796379A0109
Serious
Car crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 19 July 1979
42 m awayRef 19796379A0289
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 8 August 2005
71 m awayRef 200563AC32805
Fatal
Car crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 22 September 1987
76 m awayRef 198763A536087
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 13 August 2004
85 m awayRef 200463AC36704
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201363AC26713 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2013.