A4078 crash in Powys on 11 May 2015 at 14:57 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4078 in Powys at 14:57 on Monday 11 May 2015. The 89-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was 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
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2015
- Monday, 14:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.00917, longitude -3.22028, in the LD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563DP20015
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4078
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4078 in Powys, 23 May 1989
92 m awayRef 198963D515189
Serious
Car crash on the A478 in Powys, 15 May 1996
180 m awayRef 199663D514596
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4078 in Powys, 19 August 2012
193 m awayRef 201263DP32212
Serious
Car crash on the A4078 in Powys, 21 December 2015
193 m awayRef 201563DP43615
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4078 in Powys, 9 December 2023
199 m awayRef 2023631388509
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 22 November 2022
394 m awayRef 202263D097922
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 89, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201563DP20015 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 2015.