Fatal unclassified road crash in Powys HR3 on 4 October 1992 at 01:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on an unclassified road in Powys at 01:45 on Sunday 4 October 1992. A 28-year-old male passenger was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 4 Oct 1992
- Sunday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07786, longitude -3.15853, in the HR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199263D534492
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 200 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 1995.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A438 in Powys, 17 March 1995
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Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 5 May 1989
200 m awayRef 198963D513689
Serious
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 15 March 1983
224 m awayRef 19836383D0050
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 10 September 2000
250 m awayRef 200063BB16100
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A438 in Powys, 22 September 2010
255 m awayRef 201063DP34610
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A438 in Powys, 8 October 2011
255 m awayRef 201163DP33711
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199263D534492 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 1992.