A483 crash in Powys on 17 May 1991 at 11:10 involving a Leyland lorry
A Leyland lorry and a Bedford Brava van were involved in a crash on the A483 in Powys at 11:10 on Friday 17 May 1991. The 35-year-old male driver of the Leyland lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 1991
- Friday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Leyland and Bedford Brava
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57728, longitude -3.20412, 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
- 199163D515591
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 88 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A483 in Powys, 22 November 2023
88 m awayRef 2023631377355
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A483 in Powys, 27 May 1980
100 m awayRef 19806380D0155
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 7 September 1986
100 m awayRef 19866386D0264
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 16 October 1982
100 m awayRef 19826382D0369
Serious
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 3 February 1986
141 m awayRef 19866386D0024
Serious
Van crash on the A483 in Powys, 26 February 2015
153 m awayRef 201563DP04515
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Leyland
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Bedford Brava
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 22 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Leyland)
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 199163D515591 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 1991.