A487 crash in Ceredigion on 27 April 2016 at 16:00 involving a Renault Clio
Four vehicles, including a Renault Clio and a Skoda Fabia, were involved in a crash on the A487 in Ceredigion at 16:00 on Wednesday 27 April 2016. The 69-year-old male driver of the BMW X1 and a 73-year-old female passenger in the BMW X1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2016
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Renault Clio and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19392, longitude -4.30767, in the SA47 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llannarth, Ceredigion, SA47 0PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201663BC07816
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200563BC05505
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 18 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201663BC07416
Fatal
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 22 January 2010
10 m awayRef 201063BC00210
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 12 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199663B518796
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B487 in Ceredigion, 31 May 2004
22 m awayRef 200463BC11404
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 19 January 2010
22 m awayRef 201063BC00910
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Car
- 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (BMW X1)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (BMW X1)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201663BC07816 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.