Serious B4385 crash in Powys on 6 May 1998 at 13:15 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and two motorcycles were involved in a crash on the B4385 in Powys at 13:15 on Wednesday 6 May 1998. The 38-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 1998
- Wednesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Clio and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53919, longitude -3.11918, in the SY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199863NN05198
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4385
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B4385 in Shropshire, 5 April 1981
130 m awayRef 19816381D0078
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4385 in Powys, 9 October 2011
172 m awayRef 201163DP32811
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4385 in Shropshire, 6 December 2009
234 m awayRef 200922F906893
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4385 in Powys, 14 May 2025
401 m awayRef 2025631589984
Slight
Car crash on the B4385 in Powys, 9 May 1985
411 m awayRef 19856385D0101
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B4385 in Powys, 8 February 2017
600 m awayRef 201763DP05117
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 199863NN05198 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.