Serious A470 crash in Powys on 23 July 2010 at 13:05 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3, a Volvo lorry and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 13:05 on Friday 23 July 2010. The 63-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 was seriously 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
- 23 Jul 2010
- Friday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen C3 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47693, longitude -3.43701, in the SY17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201063DP21910
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 470
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2012.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A470 in Powys, 22 February 2012
22 m awayRef 201263DP02912
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 26 February 1982
30 m awayRef 19826382D0048
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 10 November 1989
30 m awayRef 198963D538789
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 20 October 1984
30 m awayRef 19846384D0342
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A470 in Powys, 11 January 2017
86 m awayRef 201763DP00217
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A470 in Powys, 26 October 2006
86 m awayRef 200663DP42206
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Qashqai
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
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 201063DP21910 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 2010.