A485 crash in Carmarthenshire on 23 March 2014 at 09:17 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the A485 in Carmarthenshire at 09:17 on Sunday 23 March 2014. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2014
- Sunday, 09:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09454, longitude -4.10178, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463AC07914
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 485
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2023.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 24 January 2023
6 m awayRef 202363A007723
Slight
Zontes ZT crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 20 May 2025
7 m awayRef 2025631592319
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 13 March 2011
10 m awayRef 201163AC12711
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 9 May 2017
10 m awayRef 201763A040417
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 16 April 2012
14 m awayRef 201263AC16212
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 2 August 2013
14 m awayRef 201363AC31813
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 201463AC07914 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 2014.