Serious A483 crash in Powys on 12 December 2010 at 10:03 involving a Citroen Dispatch van
A Citroen Dispatch van and a van were involved in a crash on the A483 in Powys at 10:03 on Sunday 12 December 2010. The 61-year-old male driver of the Citroen Dispatch van, a 48-year-old female passenger in the Citroen Dispatch van and the 54-year-old male driver of the van were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2010
- Sunday, 10:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Dispatch and van
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.13477, longitude -3.54783, in the LD4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201063DP41210
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A483 in Powys, 3 January 2002
41 m awayRef 200263DP00302
Serious
Peugeot 407 crash on the A483 in Powys, 2 January 2016
100 m awayRef 201663DP00116
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A483 in Powys, 31 July 2004
180 m awayRef 200463DP29304
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A483 in Powys, 7 February 1990
364 m awayRef 199063D503890
Fatal
BMW S 1000 crash on the A483 in Powys, 18 April 2014
415 m awayRef 201463DP09914
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the A483 in Powys, 8 December 1994
555 m awayRef 199463D544594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 61, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Dispatch)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Dispatch)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 201063DP41210 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.