Serious A483 crash in Powys on 19 December 2015 at 19:30 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A483 in Powys at 19:30 on Saturday 19 December 2015. A 19-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53755, longitude -3.24771, in the SY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201563DP43315
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A483 in Powys, 21 July 2006
71 m awayRef 200663DP24606
Serious
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 22 November 1979
76 m awayRef 19796379D0426
Serious
Lorry crash on the A483 in Powys, 31 October 1995
76 m awayRef 199563D531395
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 15 January 1996
76 m awayRef 199663D502396
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 10 April 1980
76 m awayRef 19806380D0105
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 9 May 2023
246 m awayRef 202363D036323
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 68 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201563DP43315 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.