Unclassified road crash in Powys LD7 on 17 September 2005 at 20:00 involving a Ford Focus taxi
A bicycle and a Ford Focus taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Powys at 20:00 on Saturday 17 September 2005. The 5-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2005
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34545, longitude -3.05663, in the LD7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Knighton.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563DP37305
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the A488 in Powys, 22 July 1994
63 m awayRef 199463D524194
Slight
Car crash on the A488 in Powys, 26 April 1983
89 m awayRef 19836383D0110
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 6 August 1986
100 m awayRef 19866386D0217
Slight
Car crash on the B4355 in Powys, 18 January 1983
141 m awayRef 19836383D0012
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 22 February 1987
179 m awayRef 198763D004787
Slight
Car crash on the A488 in Powys, 2 October 1982
184 m awayRef 19826382D0355
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 5, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200563DP37305 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.