Serious A487 crash in Ceredigion on 19 August 2017 at 02:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 02:40 on Saturday 19 August 2017. A 31-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Aug 2017
- Saturday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16437, longitude -4.33563, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201763B079117
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 486
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2012.
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 2 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201263BC06512
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 4 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199563B519095
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 27 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200663BC18206
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200163AA02501
Serious
BMW 2 Series crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 20 August 2022
8 m awayRef 202263B068422
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 1 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025631610312
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201763B079117 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 2017.