A40 crash in Carmarthenshire on 14 January 2020 at 21:12 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire at 21:12 on Tuesday 14 January 2020. The 30-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2020
- Tuesday, 21:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82618, longitude -4.55509, in the SA33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063A004020
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 30 May 2005
10 m awayRef 200563AC22005
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 14 August 1996
32 m awayRef 199663B529296
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 19 April 2005
32 m awayRef 200563AC14105
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 20 October 2025
39 m awayRef 2025631665622
Fatal
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 30 November 1986
63 m awayRef 19866386B0411
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Carmarthenshire, 20 August 1987
134 m awayRef 198763C524887
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 202063A004020 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 2020.