Serious B4337 crash in Ceredigion on 25 January 2016 at 19:48 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B4337 in Ceredigion at 19:48 on Monday 25 January 2016. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 2016
- Monday, 19:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25671, longitude -4.12454, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201663BC07716
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4337
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Other
- 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, 180 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2011.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 6 April 2011
180 m awayRef 201163BC08311
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 27 August 1979, ref 19796379B0341
228 m awayRef 19796379B0341
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 27 August 1979, ref 19796379B0332
228 m awayRef 19796379B0332
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 22 October 2010
237 m awayRef 201063BC17010
Serious
Car crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 23 June 1979
310 m awayRef 19796379B0220
Slight
Car crash on the B4577 in Ceredigion, 1 August 1985
590 m awayRef 19856385B0274
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 201663BC07716 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 2016.