Fatal unclassified road crash in Powys LD6 on 6 March 2000 at 13:30 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Powys at 13:30 on Monday 6 March 2000. A 76-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 6 Mar 2000
- Monday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30297, longitude -3.50793, in the LD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200063BB04300
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200063BB04300 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 2000.