B4338 crash in Ceredigion on 4 August 2021 at 12:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B4338 in Ceredigion at 12:30 on Wednesday 4 August 2021. The 87-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2021
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09121, longitude -4.19052, in the SA40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202163B058321
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4338
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 475
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 17 September 2006
15 m awayRef 200663BC16506
Slight
Car crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 5 November 1981
32 m awayRef 19816381B0385
Slight
Car crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 1 November 1989
136 m awayRef 198963B543589
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 20 May 2011
154 m awayRef 201163BC07611
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 3 December 2005
178 m awayRef 200563BC26705
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A475 in Ceredigion, 8 August 2007
187 m awayRef 200763BC15507
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 202163B058321 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 2021.