B4548 crash in Ceredigion on 29 December 2015 at 20:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4548 in Ceredigion at 20:00 on Tuesday 29 December 2015. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.08883, longitude -4.64947, in the SA43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardigan. It is one of the crashes that make up the Teifi, Ceredigion, SA43 1EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563BC16815
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4548
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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 lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2009.
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on the B4548 in Ceredigion, 5 August 2009
10 m awayRef 200963BC13109
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 9 January 1987
20 m awayRef 198763B000687
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 6 August 1984
20 m awayRef 19846384B0290
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 16 July 1983
20 m awayRef 19836383B0249
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4548 in Ceredigion, 25 April 1998
20 m awayRef 199863MM07798
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 November 1983
20 m awayRef 19836383B0457
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201563BC16815 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ceredigion road accident statistics for 2015.