A470 crash in Powys on 8 October 2004 at 15:05 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 15:05 on Friday 8 October 2004. The 37-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX900 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2004
- Friday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Kawasaki ZX900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29981, longitude -3.50944, in the LD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200463DP40704
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2016.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A470 in Powys, 4 March 2016
14 m awayRef 201663DP06916
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 7 April 1992
42 m awayRef 199263D510092
Serious
Yamaha FZ1 crash on the A470 in Powys, 6 April 2007
50 m awayRef 200763DP09207
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 18 September 2022
51 m awayRef 202263D081422
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A470 in Powys, 13 June 2011
71 m awayRef 201163DP17511
Slight
Van crash on the B4518 in Powys, 3 August 1988
76 m awayRef 198863D524888
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX900
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX900)
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 200463DP40704 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 2004.