B4459 crash in Ceredigion on 13 January 2013 at 01:16 involving a Volkswagen Bora
A Volkswagen Bora and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B4459 in Ceredigion at 01:16 on Sunday 13 January 2013. The 21-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Bora was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2013
- Sunday, 01:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Bora and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09266, longitude -4.28039, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201363BC00813
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4459
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 103 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 2011.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 29 April 2011
103 m awayRef 201163BC12911
Serious
Car crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 10 December 1979
132 m awayRef 19796379B0484
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B4459 in Ceredigion, 11 December 1996
171 m awayRef 199663B545696
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 15 January 1994
175 m awayRef 199463B502194
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 4 December 1992
182 m awayRef 199263B551292
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 20 January 2010
206 m awayRef 201063BC00810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Bora)
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 201363BC00813 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 2013.