C road crash in Powys SA9 on 6 June 1998 at 19:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A car and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Powys at 19:45 on Saturday 6 June 1998. A 23-year-old female passenger in the car, a 22-year-old male passenger in the car and a 38-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1998
- Saturday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77375, longitude -3.75543, in the SA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ystradgynlais.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199863ER08798
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 1999.
Serious
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Slight
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Slight
Volvo 345 crash on a C road in Powys, 21 November 1993
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Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 9 January 1999
73 m awayRef 199963ER00599
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 16 December 2011
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Serious
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 18 May 2024
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199863ER08798 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 1998.