A487 crash in Ceredigion on 27 January 2020 at 17:55 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on the A487 in Ceredigion at 17:55 on Monday 27 January 2020. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2020
- Monday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09429, longitude -4.63156, in the SA43 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063B008520
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 10 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199763B526797
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A478 in Ceredigion, 25 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199863MM07698
Slight
Yamaha R6 crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 14 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200463BC21304
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 28 April 2012
10 m awayRef 201263BC08812
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 16 October 2014
10 m awayRef 201463BC17214
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 4 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199863MM02598
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- 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 202063B008520 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 2020.