A438 crash in Powys on 5 November 1996 at 11:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A438 in Powys at 11:40 on Tuesday 5 November 1996. The 65-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a 68-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 1996
- Tuesday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07424, longitude -3.16136, in the HR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199663D539796
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 438
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 23 January 1996
100 m awayRef 199663D503096
Fatal
Mini Countryman crash on the A438 in Powys, 19 December 2025
114 m awayRef 2025631685683
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 16 August 1997
178 m awayRef 199763D526397
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A438 in Powys, 17 March 1995
283 m awayRef 199563D507095
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 5 May 1989
283 m awayRef 198963D513689
Serious
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 15 March 1983
361 m awayRef 19836383D0050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199663D539796 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.