A40 crash in Carmarthenshire on 6 April 2015 at 10:39 involving a car
Five cars were involved in a crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire at 10:39 on Monday 6 April 2015. A 35-year-old female passenger in vehicle 4, a 3-year-old male passenger in vehicle 4 and the 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2015
- Monday, 10:39
- Vehicles
- 5
- Car and 4 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85112, longitude -4.31427, in the SA31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carmarthen Town North and South, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563AC10715
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2003.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 23 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200363AC16203
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A48 in Carmarthenshire, 13 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199763B501697
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 31 July 2015
10 m awayRef 201563AC28415
Serious
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 15 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200363AC01403
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 11 August 2016
14 m awayRef 201663AC25316
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 3 August 2015
14 m awayRef 201563AC28815
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Car)
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 201563AC10715 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 2015.