A485 crash in Carmarthenshire on 18 September 2024 at 02:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A485 in Carmarthenshire at 02:45 on Wednesday 18 September 2024. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2024
- Wednesday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04288, longitude -4.19349, in the SA40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Carmarthenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024631492704
- Council area
- Carmarthenshire
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 485
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2002.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 21 August 2002
44 m awayRef 200263AC36602
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 13 March 1994
58 m awayRef 199463B507694
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 1 May 1991
81 m awayRef 199163B517391
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 12 September 2002
93 m awayRef 200263AC41402
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 18 June 2007
167 m awayRef 200763AC26807
Serious
Car crash on the A485 in Carmarthenshire, 18 December 1980
168 m awayRef 19806380B0473
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024631492704 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Carmarthenshire road accident statistics for 2024.