A487 crash in Ceredigion on 5 November 2016 at 02:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 02:10 on Saturday 5 November 2016. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26425, longitude -4.19905, in the SY23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201663BC17316
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 March 2016.
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 10 March 2016
20 m awayRef 201663BC06216
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 February 2019
22 m awayRef 201963B037219
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 29 May 2016
36 m awayRef 201663BC05916
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 December 2014
41 m awayRef 201463BC17314
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 19 September 1994
45 m awayRef 199463B538494
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 29 July 2009
54 m awayRef 200963BC12309
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
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
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 201663BC17316 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.