A483 crash in Powys on 15 October 2002 at 09:19 involving a Vauxhall Astra van
A Vauxhall Astra van and an Isuzu Trooper were involved in a crash on the A483 in Powys at 09:19 on Tuesday 15 October 2002. The 49-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra van and the 51-year-old male driver of the Isuzu Trooper were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2002
- Tuesday, 09:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Isuzu Trooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60324, longitude -3.18641, in the SY21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200263DP42202
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4390
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A483 in Powys, 8 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200363DP35703
Fatal
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A483 in Powys, 17 October 2012
At the same spotRef 201263DP33512
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4390 in Powys, 11 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200863DP20408
Slight
Scania crash on the A483 in Powys, 9 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200263DP30502
Serious
Audi S3 crash on the A483 in Powys, 10 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025631576099
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A483 in Powys, 24 August 2007
10 m awayRef 200763DP29907
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Isuzu Trooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,059 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Isuzu Trooper)
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 200263DP42202 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 2002.