Unclassified road crash in Powys SY15 on 24 October 1981 at 01:45 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Powys at 01:45 on Saturday 24 October 1981. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 1981
- Saturday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53851, longitude -3.02613, in the SY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19816381D0374
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 7 February 1988
100 m awayRef 198863D503288
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 23 July 1986
200 m awayRef 19866386D0196
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 23 November 2025
267 m awayRef 2025631672420
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Powys, 11 November 1991
600 m awayRef 199163D538991
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 14 February 2000
722 m awayRef 200063NN02600
Serious
Suzuki RV 125 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 22 March 2010
800 m awayRef 201063DP07710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19816381D0374 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Powys road accident statistics for 1981.