A458 crash in Powys on 5 June 2006 at 13:20 involving a Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle and a Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A458 in Powys at 13:20 on Monday 5 June 2006. The 26-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX750 motorcycle and the 43-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2006
- Monday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX750 and Yamaha FZ6
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64948, longitude -3.22802, 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
- 200663DP19106
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 458
- 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
- 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
- 34%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 66%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2016.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A458 in Powys, 31 July 2016
14 m awayRef 201663DP27316
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A458 in Powys, 18 December 2000
14 m awayRef 200063NN18500
Slight
Car crash on the A458 in Powys, 19 September 1997
22 m awayRef 199763D529997
Serious
Car crash on the A458 in Powys, 14 February 1979
45 m awayRef 19796379D0047
Serious
Triumph Sprint ST 1050 crash on the A458 in Powys, 10 July 2014
60 m awayRef 201463DP30514
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A458 in Powys, 28 February 2004
67 m awayRef 200463DP06304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX750
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha FZ6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX750)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha FZ6)
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 200663DP19106 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 2006.