Serious B4357 crash in Powys on 18 November 2012 at 13:10 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on the B4357 in Powys at 13:10 on Sunday 18 November 2012. The 77-year-old male driver of the Toyota RAV4 was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Combo van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2012
- Sunday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota RAV4 and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28001, longitude -3.0753, in the LD8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201263DP37012
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4357
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2022.
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B4357 in Powys, 8 October 2022
6 m awayRef 202263D082522
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the B4357 in Powys, 4 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200263DP37702
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B4357 in Powys, 18 November 2009
85 m awayRef 200963DP37409
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B4357 in Powys, 25 April 1995
117 m awayRef 199563D510895
Fatal
BMW 1 Series crash on the B4357 in Powys, 4 September 2022
181 m awayRef 202263DF02022
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 5 August 1979
260 m awayRef 19796379D0259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
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 201263DP37012 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.