Serious B4336 crash in Carmarthenshire on 26 August 2015 at 10:46 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire at 10:46 on Wednesday 26 August 2015. An 81-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 50-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 10:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.03362, longitude -4.31217, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563AC23315
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4336
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4642
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 April 2014.
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 12 April 2014
50 m awayRef 201463AC10614
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 19 March 2010
50 m awayRef 201063AC10310
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 24 September 2013
71 m awayRef 201363AC35013
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 14 October 2004
81 m awayRef 200463AC52404
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 2 September 1992
95 m awayRef 199263B538592
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the B4336 in Carmarthenshire, 6 February 2007
120 m awayRef 200763AC01507
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201563AC23315 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.