B4342 crash in Ceredigion on 27 February 2020 at 20:30 involving a Seat Altea
A Seat Altea crashed on the B4342 in Ceredigion at 20:30 on Thursday 27 February 2020. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2020
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Altea
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20475, longitude -4.33058, in the SA45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063B016620
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4342
- 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
- Dry
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, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2022.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 21 October 2022
51 m awayRef 202263B086622
Slight
Ford crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 4 May 1990
57 m awayRef 199063B522290
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 30 September 2000
57 m awayRef 200063AA16600
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 14 March 2023
61 m awayRef 202363B020523
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 28 August 1985
72 m awayRef 19856385B0323
Slight
Car crash on the B4342 in Ceredigion, 28 April 2002
72 m awayRef 200263BC08702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Altea
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 and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Altea)
- 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 202063B016620 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.