A487 crash in Ceredigion on 30 December 2018 at 13:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 13:10 on Sunday 30 December 2018. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26145, longitude -4.20679, 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
- 201863B124018
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2024.
Slight
Harley-Davidson crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 11 June 2024
4 m awayRef 2024631454499
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 3 January 2016
10 m awayRef 201663BC00416
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 20 June 2011
10 m awayRef 201163BC08811
Serious
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 26 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201263BC08712
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 5 August 2023
11 m awayRef 2023631338520
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 March 2025
14 m awayRef 2025631568617
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201863B124018 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 2018.