A485 crash in Ceredigion on 14 December 2024 at 20:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A485 in Ceredigion at 20:50 on Saturday 14 December 2024. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2024
- Saturday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1384, longitude -4.07399, in the SA48 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024631530277
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1995.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 22 May 1995
9 m awayRef 199563B516195
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 9 September 2016
9 m awayRef 201663BC13416
Serious
Yamaha Ybr crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion, 12 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025631628089
Slight
Kawasaki VN900 crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 8 August 2009
46 m awayRef 200963BC13409
Serious
Car crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 12 November 1983
50 m awayRef 19836383B0447
Slight
Car crash on the A485 in Ceredigion, 11 January 1980
50 m awayRef 19806380B0004
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2024631530277 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 2024.