Serious A4079 crash in Powys on 5 June 2012 at 02:58 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on the A4079 in Powys at 02:58 on Tuesday 5 June 2012. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jun 2012
- Tuesday, 02:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0341, longitude -3.21502, in the LD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263DP15512
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4079
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 85 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 November 2009.
Fatal
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4079 in Powys, 14 November 2009
85 m awayRef 200963DP36609
Slight
Volvo XC40 crash on the A4079 in Powys, 8 November 2019
344 m awayRef 201963D105619
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A4079 in Powys, 12 April 2009
361 m awayRef 200963DP17109
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A4079 in Powys, 13 September 1986
492 m awayRef 19866386D0279
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4079 in Powys, 23 July 2023
499 m awayRef 2023631337828
Slight
Car crash on the A438 in Powys, 8 October 1985
585 m awayRef 19856385D0285
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 201263DP15512 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.