Serious unclassified road crash in Powys SY9 on 30 April 2022 at 09:30 involving a BMW R Series motorcycle
A BMW R Series motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Powys at 09:30 on Saturday 30 April 2022. The 63-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 2022
- Saturday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW R Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49939, longitude -3.04735, in the SY9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202263D030022
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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, 1.1 km away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2003.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 15 October 2003
1.1 km awayRef 200322FD35681
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 15 August 2011
1.3 km awayRef 201122F103401
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 4 June 1981
1.6 km awayRef 19816381D0153
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 17 June 1995
1.8 km awayRef 199522EG06884
Slight
Tractor crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 7 September 2002
1.9 km awayRef 200263DP35702
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4385 in Powys, 30 November 2014
2.0 km awayRef 201463DP33714
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW R Series
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,130 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 63, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW R Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 202263D030022 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 2022.