Serious B4338 crash in Ceredigion on 5 December 2023 at 00:01 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 crashed on the B4338 in Ceredigion at 00:01 on Tuesday 5 December 2023. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2023
- Tuesday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11649, longitude -4.20956, in the SA40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023631382640
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 112 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2008.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 29 June 2008
112 m awayRef 200863BC10108
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 17 July 2000
664 m awayRef 200063AA11700
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 19 June 2003
664 m awayRef 200363BC12403
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 6 April 2019
664 m awayRef 201963B027119
Slight
Car crash on the B4338 in Ceredigion, 6 January 1988
790 m awayRef 198863B500888
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 10 April 1979
887 m awayRef 19796379B0106
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2023631382640 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.