Serious A483 crash in Powys on 16 July 2014 at 19:14 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, a Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on the A483 in Powys at 19:14 on Wednesday 16 July 2014. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2014
- Wednesday, 19:14
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.73051, longitude -3.09627, in the SY21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201463DP22414
- 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
- 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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Crossland crash on the A483 in Powys, 7 November 2025
15 m awayRef 2025631665100
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A483 in Powys, 8 April 2003
70 m awayRef 200363DP16303
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A483 in Powys, 22 March 2006
71 m awayRef 200663DP11606
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 4 April 1983
76 m awayRef 19836383D0076
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 10 August 1987
76 m awayRef 198763D527787
Serious
Audi 90 crash on the A483 in Powys, 25 June 1992
133 m awayRef 199263D519692
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 201463DP22414 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.