Serious A470 crash in Powys on 16 October 2018 at 00:30 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 crashed on the A470 in Powys at 00:30 on Tuesday 16 October 2018. A 23-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a 19-year-old female passenger and the 31-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Oct 2018
- Tuesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01502, longitude -3.28806, in the LD3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201863D099118
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A470 in Powys, 10 February 2011
30 m awayRef 201163DP03511
Serious
Ducati crash on the A470 in Powys, 21 May 2000
32 m awayRef 200063BB08000
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 29 July 2012
32 m awayRef 201263DP19112
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A4701 in Powys, 24 November 1990
60 m awayRef 199063D546090
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 16 March 1979
60 m awayRef 19796379D0069
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A470 in Powys, 7 November 1992
60 m awayRef 199263D535492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- 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 201863D099118 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.