Unclassified road crash in Ceredigion SY23 on 22 August 2025 at 15:05 involving a Mitsubishi L200 van
A Mitsubishi L200 van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ceredigion at 15:05 on Friday 22 August 2025. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2025
- Friday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mitsubishi L200 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42808, longitude -4.03303, in the SY23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Trefeurig, Ceredigion, SY23 3EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025631632207
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 487
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 13 November 1995
8 m awayRef 199563B537595
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 20 July 2015
8 m awayRef 201563BC09515
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 24 November 2014
9 m awayRef 201463BC16114
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 6 January 2015
9 m awayRef 201563BC00215
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 18 December 2001
9 m awayRef 200163BC20101
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A487 in Ceredigion, 6 October 2001
9 m awayRef 200163BC14501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 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 2025631632207 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 2025.