A483 crash in Powys on 30 May 2011 at 14:25 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Peugeot 308 were involved in a crash on the A483 in Powys at 14:25 on Monday 30 May 2011. The 73-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 308, a 50-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 308 and a 69-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 308 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2011
- Monday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22886, longitude -3.3852, in the LD1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llandrindod Wells.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201163DP14211
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 October 1999.
Fatal
Rover Maestro crash on the A483 in Powys, 10 October 1999
54 m awayRef 199963BB19699
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 12 July 1985
71 m awayRef 19856385D0182
Serious
Lorry crash on the A483 in Powys, 9 January 1987
114 m awayRef 198763D000687
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 23 December 1989
130 m awayRef 198963D544989
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 16 June 1990
270 m awayRef 199063D520590
Serious
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 23 May 1987
270 m awayRef 198763D014687
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 308)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201163DP14211 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 2011.