A470 crash in Powys on 2 July 2014 at 22:25 involving a Hyundai Coupe
A Hyundai Coupe and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 22:25 on Wednesday 2 July 2014. The 23-year-old male driver of the Hyundai Coupe 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
- 2 Jul 2014
- Wednesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Coupe and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25449, longitude -3.47376, in the LD1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463DP17214
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2016.
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A470 in Powys, 16 July 2016
20 m awayRef 201663DP23916
Fatal
Renault Megane crash on the A470 in Powys, 7 September 2017
22 m awayRef 201763D002617
Serious
Scania crash on the A470 in Powys, 23 February 1998
22 m awayRef 199863BB03098
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A470 in Powys, 29 February 2008
28 m awayRef 200863DP07508
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 21 September 2015
32 m awayRef 201563DP29415
Slight
Van crash on the A470 in Powys, 23 August 1985
40 m awayRef 19856385D0242
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,975 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Coupe)
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 201463DP17214 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 2014.