Serious A484 crash in Carmarthenshire on 19 December 2015 at 03:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A484 in Carmarthenshire at 03:00 on Saturday 19 December 2015. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68868, longitude -4.21323, in the SA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pwll.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563AC42515
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 484
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 August 2004.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 13 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200463AC36704
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 8 August 2005
36 m awayRef 200563AC32805
Slight
Car crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 16 August 2008
42 m awayRef 200863AC33108
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 19 July 2009
57 m awayRef 200963AC34409
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 20 August 1994
81 m awayRef 199463A528294
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A484 in Carmarthenshire, 10 May 1997
81 m awayRef 199763A514297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201563AC42515 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.