A4218 crash in Pembrokeshire on 3 October 2023 at 15:20 involving a Kia Picanto
A Kia Picanto hit a pedestrian on the A4218 in Pembrokeshire at 15:20 on Tuesday 3 October 2023. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2023
- Tuesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67441, longitude -4.70768, in the SA70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tenby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tenby: North, Pembrokeshire, SA70 7AN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023631359064
- Council area
- Pembrokeshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4218
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 4139
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4218 in Pembrokeshire, 4 February 2014
5 m awayRef 201463CP08414
Slight
Van crash on the A4218 in Pembrokeshire, 18 July 2001
5 m awayRef 200163CP10201
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A4218 in Pembrokeshire, 12 January 1999
9 m awayRef 199963PP00899
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4218 in Pembrokeshire, 7 July 2007
15 m awayRef 200763CP22907
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on the A4218 in Pembrokeshire, 30 September 2018
15 m awayRef 201863C114718
Slight
Car crash on the A4128 in Pembrokeshire, 12 August 1997
17 m awayRef 199763C524297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Picanto)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023631359064 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pembrokeshire road accident statistics for 2023.