A470 crash in Powys on 23 April 2012 at 20:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Honda CR-Z were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 20:40 on Monday 23 April 2012. The 28-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2012
- Monday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Honda CR-Z
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36092, longitude -3.58656, in the SY18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263DP08412
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 30 March 2003.
Fatal
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A470 in Powys, 30 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200363DP11103
Fatal
KTM 1290 Superduke crash on the A470 in Powys, 8 October 2023
4 m awayRef 2023631374267
Serious
ERF crash on the A470 in Powys, 15 April 2011
14 m awayRef 201163DP10311
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A470 in Powys, 3 March 2008
32 m awayRef 200863DP07208
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Powys, 6 May 1983
57 m awayRef 19836383D0119
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A470 in Powys, 16 December 2004
57 m awayRef 200463DP52704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CR-Z
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201263DP08412 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 2012.