Unclassified road crash in Powys SY16 on 18 February 1996 at 22:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Powys at 22:40 on Sunday 18 February 1996. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 1996
- Sunday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50311, longitude -3.33027, in the SY16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newtown.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199663D504796
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 200 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 19 March 1995
200 m awayRef 199563D506895
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 15 August 2025
209 m awayRef 2025631630727
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 16 December 2020
220 m awayRef 202063D085720
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 25 April 1994
224 m awayRef 199463D512594
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 19 April 2015
234 m awayRef 201563DP21815
Slight
Van crash on the A489 in Powys, 18 October 1983
283 m awayRef 19836383D0346
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 199663D504796 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 1996.