Serious A40 crash in Powys on 12 December 2005 at 12:45 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a car were involved in a crash on the A40 in Powys at 12:45 on Monday 12 December 2005. The 43-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was seriously injured and a 62-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2005
- Monday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87557, longitude -3.18067, in the NP8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200563DP47105
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Powys, 1 June 1986
73 m awayRef 19866386D0154
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 20 October 1979
73 m awayRef 19796379D0385
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Powys, 19 August 1983
73 m awayRef 19836383D0265
Fatal
Renault Megane crash on the A40 in Powys, 6 July 2006
78 m awayRef 200663DP23906
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Powys, 13 December 1984
85 m awayRef 19846384D0415
Slight
Lorry crash on the A40 in Powys, 27 November 1985
85 m awayRef 19856385D0341
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 200563DP47105 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.