A4069 crash in Carmarthenshire on 3 February 2019 at 03:58 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire at 03:58 on Sunday 3 February 2019. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2019
- Sunday, 03:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88979, longitude -3.83524, in the SA19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201963A009319
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4069
- 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
- Frost or ice
- 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, 218 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 July 2024.
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 9 July 2024
218 m awayRef 2024631468720
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 5 July 1984
240 m awayRef 19846384A0226
Serious
Car crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 14 July 1984
240 m awayRef 19846384A0253
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 5 March 2011
250 m awayRef 201163AC09611
Slight
Car crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 30 August 2005
270 m awayRef 200563AC40805
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A4069 in Carmarthenshire, 30 May 2007
270 m awayRef 200763AC22007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201963A009319 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2019.