A4066 crash in Carmarthenshire on 22 April 2016 at 21:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire at 21:40 on Friday 22 April 2016. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2016
- Friday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.752, longitude -4.52704, in the SA33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201663AC09516
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4066
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire, 10 August 2018
36 m awayRef 201863A075418
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire, 8 June 1991
58 m awayRef 199163B522891
Serious
Car crash on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire, 13 June 1987
86 m awayRef 198763B518787
Serious
Car crash on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire, 28 April 1979
86 m awayRef 19796379B0129
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire, 18 March 1993
86 m awayRef 199363B508293
Serious
Car crash on the A4066 in Carmarthenshire, 21 February 1980
166 m awayRef 19806380B0051
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 201663AC09516 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 2016.