Unclassified road crash in Powys LD3 on 5 April 2008 at 22:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Powys at 22:00 on Saturday 5 April 2008. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2008
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86259, longitude -3.31118, in the LD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200863DP11008
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 15 August 1979
41 m awayRef 19796379D0275
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 12 July 1984
749 m awayRef 19846384D0213
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 8 December 2012
844 m awayRef 201263DP35812
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 2 July 2002
845 m awayRef 200263DP24102
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 11 July 2005
947 m awayRef 200563DP26305
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 9 September 2018
1.0 km awayRef 201863D084918
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200863DP11008 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 2008.