Unclassified road crash in Carmarthenshire SA31 on 13 August 2015 at 15:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire at 15:20 on Thursday 13 August 2015. The 68-year-old male driver was 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
- 13 Aug 2015
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86121, longitude -4.30883, in the SA31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carmarthen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carmarthen Town North and South, Carmarthenshire, SA31 1GY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563AC35015
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2012.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 22 May 2012
50 m awayRef 201263AC17112
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 8 September 2000
51 m awayRef 200063MM16800
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 8 September 2008
54 m awayRef 200863AC35708
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 5 April 2014
61 m awayRef 201463AC06714
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 14 June 1999
63 m awayRef 199963MM13099
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Carmarthenshire, 16 April 2009
71 m awayRef 200963AC12409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201563AC35015 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.