A458 crash in Powys on 15 August 2010 at 17:14 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
Five vehicles, including a Suzuki motorcycle and a Fiat Punto, were involved in a crash on the A458 in Powys at 17:14 on Sunday 15 August 2010. The 42-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle and the 31-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2010
- Sunday, 17:14
- Vehicles
- 5
- Suzuki and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65953, longitude -3.36152, 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
- 201063DP25210
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4385
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2007.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A458 in Powys, 22 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200763DP00507
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A458 in Powys, 4 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199763D528997
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A458 in Powys, 24 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199763D530897
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A458 in Powys, 31 August 1998
20 m awayRef 199863NN12598
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A458 in Powys, 27 October 2003
22 m awayRef 200363DP43203
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A458 in Powys, 17 December 2005
45 m awayRef 200563DP47005
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Suzuki GSF 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 4: Opel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 3 (Suzuki GSF 1200)
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 201063DP25210 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.