C road crash in Powys NP8 on 10 October 1997 at 09:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Powys at 09:50 on Friday 10 October 1997. The 31-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1997
- Friday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87326, longitude -3.09865, in the NP8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199763D533597
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 199763D533597 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 1997.