A483 crash in Carmarthenshire on 28 July 2014 at 17:37 involving a Mazda 3
Four vehicles, including a car and a Mazda 3, were involved in a crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire at 17:37 on Monday 28 July 2014. The 30-year-old male driver of the car and a 23-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2014
- Monday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 4
- Mazda 3 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.816, longitude -4.00159, in the SA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llandybie.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463AC18614
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 8 September 1993
67 m awayRef 199363A526293
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 8 November 1984
67 m awayRef 19846384A0397
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 1 July 2007
78 m awayRef 200763AC30607
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 15 February 1988
81 m awayRef 198863A504888
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 4 September 1982
92 m awayRef 19826382A0312
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A483 in Carmarthenshire, 28 October 1996
122 m awayRef 199663A530496
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 4: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201463AC18614 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.