Serious B4571 crash in Ceredigion on 14 November 2023 at 21:10 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat crashed on the B4571 in Ceredigion at 21:10 on Tuesday 14 November 2023. The 61-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Nov 2023
- Tuesday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09411, longitude -4.39031, in the SA44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023631374647
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 12 August 2012
44 m awayRef 201263BC14212
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 9 July 2020
51 m awayRef 202063B039020
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 15 March 2017
51 m awayRef 201763BC02617
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 14 July 2023
52 m awayRef 2023631329328
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 5 January 2006
58 m awayRef 200663BC00206
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B4571 in Ceredigion, 22 July 2016
58 m awayRef 201663BC09816
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- 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 2023631374647 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 2023.