A40 crash in Carmarthenshire on 15 May 2014 at 17:20 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206, a Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire at 17:20 on Thursday 15 May 2014. A 4-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2014
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 206 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99652, longitude -3.80351, in the SA20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llandovery. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, SA20 0EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463AC09414
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2018.
Slight
Suzuki TL 1000 crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 29 June 2018
At the same spotRef 201863A059918
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 16 October 2007
22 m awayRef 200763AC44407
Slight
Honda CBF1000A crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 12 March 2014
22 m awayRef 201463AC08514
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 28 August 1981
63 m awayRef 19816381A0284
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 13 July 2025
64 m awayRef 2025631618081
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 1 May 2015
94 m awayRef 201563AC13815
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- 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 201463AC09414 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.