Unclassified road crash in Ceredigion SY23 on 3 August 2014 at 00:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Ceredigion at 00:50 on Sunday 3 August 2014. A 25-year-old male passenger and the 42-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2014
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29469, longitude -4.04613, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463BC07914
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 2 August 1998
57 m awayRef 199863AA12698
Slight
Fiat Strada crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 11 July 1992
345 m awayRef 199263B524592
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 5 February 1985
444 m awayRef 19856385B0033
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 27 January 2005
684 m awayRef 2005600GN2002
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 8 May 2007
730 m awayRef 200763BC14307
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 28 August 2005
767 m awayRef 2005600GN2024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 201463BC07914 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 2014.