B4388 crash in Powys on 16 January 2005 at 14:39 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the B4388 in Powys at 14:39 on Sunday 16 January 2005. A 10-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus, the 32-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane and a 32-year-old male passenger in the Renault Megane were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2005
- Sunday, 14:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59019, longitude -3.14192, 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
- 200563DP01605
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4388
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2024.
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B4388 in Powys, 4 May 2024
5 m awayRef 2024631439144
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4388 in Powys, 16 May 2023
7 m awayRef 2023631308068
Serious
Vauxhall Crossland crash on the B4388 in Powys, 9 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025631653682
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4388 in Powys, 13 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200063NN13200
Serious
Volvo V50 crash on the B4388 in Powys, 27 February 2012
10 m awayRef 201263DP07112
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the B4388 in Powys, 6 April 2017
10 m awayRef 201763D030117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- 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 200563DP01605 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 2005.