Serious B4380 crash in Powys on 1 November 1984 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4380 in Powys at 17:00 on Thursday 1 November 1984. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Nov 1984
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.04511, longitude -3.19706, in the HR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19846384D0358
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4380
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 19846384D0358 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 1984.