A483 crash in Powys on 17 February 2005 at 22:15 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy crashed on the A483 in Powys at 22:15 on Thursday 17 February 2005. The 18-year-old female driver and a 40-year-old male 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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2005
- Thursday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61218, longitude -3.18267, 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
- 200563DP07905
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2001.
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A483 in Powys, 24 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200163DP29201
Slight
BMW K 1200 RS crash on the A483 in Powys, 22 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200363DP07003
Serious
Bedford crash on the A483 in Powys, 2 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200163DP36301
Fatal
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 1 April 1997
20 m awayRef 199763D509497
Slight
Bedford crash on the A483 in Powys, 18 April 1992
45 m awayRef 199263D510892
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A483 in Powys, 18 June 1999
45 m awayRef 199963NN06699
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- 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 200563DP07905 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.