Serious A470 crash in Powys on 21 June 2016 at 13:30 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Dacia Sandero were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 13:30 on Tuesday 21 June 2016. The 57-year-old female driver of the Dacia Sandero 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
- 21 Jun 2016
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Dacia Sandero
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59872, longitude -3.59426, in the SY19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201663DP16516
- 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
- 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, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2022.
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 12 February 2022
63 m awayRef 202263D011322
Serious
Lorry crash on the A470 in Powys, 21 July 2024
65 m awayRef 2024631470471
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A470 in Powys, 1 July 2006
124 m awayRef 200663DP22106
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 2 June 1984
156 m awayRef 19846384D0178
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A470 in Powys, 22 August 2022
190 m awayRef 202263D069222
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A470 in Powys, 4 August 2019
246 m awayRef 201963D067819
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,946 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Dacia Sandero)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 201663DP16516 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.