A487 crash in Ceredigion on 20 February 2017 at 23:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 23:20 on Monday 20 February 2017. The 18-year-old female driver, a 20-year-old female passenger and a 39-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2017
- Monday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22378, longitude -4.27242, in the SA46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201763BC02117
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2004.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 5 January 2004
20 m awayRef 200463BC00304
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 12 February 1998
20 m awayRef 199863AA03398
Slight
Hyundai Bayon crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 November 2024
24 m awayRef 2024631520796
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 1 August 1985
36 m awayRef 19856385B0263
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 19 August 1979
36 m awayRef 19796379B0324
Serious
Lorry crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 6 September 1983
36 m awayRef 19836383B0357
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201763BC02117 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.