A40 crash in Pembrokeshire on 21 February 2015 at 14:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Pembrokeshire at 14:40 on Saturday 21 February 2015. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2015
- Saturday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99304, longitude -4.97756, in the SA65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fishguard. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fishguard: North East, Pembrokeshire, SA65 9PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Pembrokeshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563CP02815
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1997.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Pembrokeshire, 21 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199763C514097
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Pembrokeshire, 8 June 2007
10 m awayRef 200763CP16807
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 13 September 1982
36 m awayRef 19826382C0342
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 24 July 1979
36 m awayRef 19796379C0282
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 15 August 1984
36 m awayRef 19846384C0257
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Pembrokeshire, 25 July 1985
36 m awayRef 19856385C0237
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201563CP02815 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 2015.