A470 crash in Powys on 18 September 2000 at 22:10 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the A470 in Powys at 22:10 on Monday 18 September 2000. The 17-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2000
- Monday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82886, longitude -3.45707, in the CF48 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200063BB16500
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 470
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A470 in Powys, 1 February 2007
14 m awayRef 200763DP03907
Slight
Honda crash on the A470 in Powys, 5 June 2005
28 m awayRef 200563DP22105
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A470 in Powys, 21 June 2022
37 m awayRef 202263D048422
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A470 in Powys, 25 May 1998
50 m awayRef 199863BB08998
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A470 in Powys, 17 June 2012
57 m awayRef 201263DP11712
Slight
Lexmoto LXR crash on the A470 in Powys, 8 April 2025
75 m awayRef 2025631578147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- 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 200063BB16500 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.