Serious A470 crash in Powys on 30 August 2020 at 15:25 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A motorcycle and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 15:25 on Sunday 30 August 2020. The 63-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 30 Aug 2020
- Sunday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45684, longitude -3.52301, in the SY18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202063D057620
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 March 1999.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A470 in Powys, 6 March 1999
22 m awayRef 199963NN02199
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A470 in Powys, 20 January 1990
91 m awayRef 199063D502190
Fatal
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 23 December 1982
91 m awayRef 19826382D0440
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 3 March 1983
91 m awayRef 19836383D0048
Serious
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 12 December 1980
91 m awayRef 19806380D0429
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A470 in Powys, 25 September 2021
117 m awayRef 202163D078221
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 63, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 202063D057620 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 2020.