B470 crash in Powys on 25 January 2005 at 17:30 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit five pedestrians on the B470 in Powys at 17:30 on Tuesday 25 January 2005. All five casualties were slightly injured. Five of them were pedestrians.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2005
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21353, longitude -3.44137, in the LD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563DP03205
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4311
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 54%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 46%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 June 1999.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A470 in Powys, 17 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199963BB09599
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A470 in Powys, 27 November 1999
58 m awayRef 199963BB21099
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 8 May 1988
63 m awayRef 198863D513788
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 31 December 2015
86 m awayRef 201563DP42915
Fatal
Peugeot 306 crash on the A470 in Powys, 10 June 2004
94 m awayRef 200463DP20804
Slight
Land Rover crash on the A470 in Powys, 21 March 1995
100 m awayRef 199563D508695
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 4: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 5: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- 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 200563DP03205 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.