Serious A458 crash in Powys on 22 June 2016 at 12:45 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A458 in Powys at 12:45 on Wednesday 22 June 2016. The 83-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 2016
- Wednesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64386, longitude -3.15204, 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
- 201663DP21716
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 458
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2012.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A483 in Powys, 4 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201263DP30212
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 25 April 1997
22 m awayRef 199763D512297
Fatal
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 1 June 1980
71 m awayRef 19806380D0171
Serious
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 24 July 1982
71 m awayRef 19826382D0243
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A483 in Powys, 3 January 1993
71 m awayRef 199363D500293
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A483 in Powys, 30 October 1990
71 m awayRef 199063D542590
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201663DP21716 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.