Serious A490 crash in Powys on 30 May 2016 at 15:00 involving a Renault Scenic
A Renault Scenic and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A490 in Powys at 15:00 on Monday 30 May 2016. The 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa 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
- Serious
- Date
- 30 May 2016
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Scenic and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.75673, longitude -3.22837, in the SY22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201663DP13016
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 490
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4393
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2017.
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A490 in Powys, 24 January 2017
At the same spotRef 201763DP03317
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A490 in Powys, 1 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201063DP31810
Slight
Car crash on the A490 in Powys, 18 September 1985
10 m awayRef 19856385D0266
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A490 in Powys, 12 September 2025
13 m awayRef 2025631641359
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A490 in Powys, 9 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199763D525897
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A490 in Powys, 9 September 2018
50 m awayRef 201863D089018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201663DP13016 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 2016.