A477 crash in Carmarthenshire on 15 October 2015 at 06:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A477 in Carmarthenshire at 06:30 on Thursday 15 October 2015. The 27-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78008, longitude -4.60596, in the SA34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563AC34715
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 477
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 199 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2023.
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A477 in Carmarthenshire, 27 September 2023
199 m awayRef 2023631357435
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A477 in Carmarthenshire, 24 July 1990
233 m awayRef 199063C526290
Serious
Car crash on the A477 in Carmarthenshire, 21 July 1990
233 m awayRef 199063C527590
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A477 in Carmarthenshire, 18 May 1992
273 m awayRef 199263C515392
Slight
Volkswagen 1200 crash on the B577 in Carmarthenshire, 26 December 1997
311 m awayRef 199763C539997
Slight
Car crash on the A477 in Carmarthenshire, 13 May 1989
375 m awayRef 198963C512789
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, 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 201563AC34715 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.