Serious unclassified road crash in Powys HR5 on 18 April 2008 at 14:00 involving a Cagiva Mito motorcycle
A van and a Cagiva Mito motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Powys at 14:00 on Friday 18 April 2008. The 20-year-old male rider of the Cagiva Mito motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 2008
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Cagiva Mito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.17372, longitude -3.12582, in the HR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200863DP13508
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 474 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 September 1999.
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B4594 in Powys, 5 September 1999
474 m awayRef 199963BB16399
Slight
Car crash on the B4594 in Powys, 30 June 1997
1.1 km awayRef 199763D521197
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 17 February 2021
1.1 km awayRef 202163D037621
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 28 May 1988
1.6 km awayRef 198863D515288
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Herefordshire, 8 June 1992
1.7 km awayRef 1992220606010
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4594 in Powys, 28 June 1980
1.7 km awayRef 19806380D0193
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Cagiva Mito
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Cagiva Mito)
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 200863DP13508 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.