Serious A44 crash in Powys on 31 July 2018 at 10:25 involving a Honda CRF250L motorcycle
A Honda CRF250L motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A44 in Powys at 10:25 on Tuesday 31 July 2018. The 62-year-old male rider of the Honda CRF250L motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CRF250L and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29355, longitude -3.45229, in the LD6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201863D083018
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2021.
Slight
Land Rover crash on the A44 in Powys, 6 April 2021
3 m awayRef 202163D015721
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A44 in Powys, 2 May 2011
14 m awayRef 201163DP17611
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A44 in Powys, 10 February 2003
14 m awayRef 200363DP05803
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A44 in Powys, 7 October 2021
17 m awayRef 202163D084221
Slight
Taxi crash on the A44 in Powys, 14 November 2009
158 m awayRef 200963DP36209
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A44 in Powys, 4 November 1991
292 m awayRef 199163D539391
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRF250L
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CRF250L)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201863D083018 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 2018.