B4571 crash in Ceredigion on 9 July 2020 at 21:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the B4571 in Ceredigion at 21:00 on Thursday 9 July 2020. The 41-year-old male driver and a 43-year-old female passenger were 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
- 9 Jul 2020
- Thursday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09375, longitude -4.39078, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063B039020
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4571
- 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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 2017.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 15 March 2017
At the same spotRef 201763BC02617
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 14 July 2023
3 m awayRef 2023631329328
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 12 August 2012
10 m awayRef 201263BC14212
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 22 July 2016
10 m awayRef 201663BC09816
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 5 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200663BC00206
Serious
Car crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 24 June 1981
36 m awayRef 19816381B0187
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
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
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 202063B039020 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.