A470 crash in Powys on 14 June 2017 at 10:25 involving a Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 10:25 on Wednesday 14 June 2017. The 34-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 2017
- Wednesday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX636 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87716, longitude -3.4952, 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
- 201763D053917
- 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
- Other 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2004.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the A470 in Powys, 9 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200463DP36204
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A470 in Powys, 30 May 2005
10 m awayRef 200563DP20505
Serious
Mini Countryman crash on the A470 in Powys, 11 December 2024
17 m awayRef 2024631528955
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A470 in Powys, 18 August 2024
19 m awayRef 2024631481200
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 6 July 2006
22 m awayRef 200663DP22706
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the A470 in Powys, 29 May 2025
30 m awayRef 2025631596676
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX636
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 636 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX636)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201763D053917 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 2017.