Serious unclassified road crash in Powys SY18 on 27 August 2023 at 12:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Powys at 12:00 on Sunday 27 August 2023. The 82-year-old male cyclist 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
- 27 Aug 2023
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33107, longitude -3.59546, in the SY18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023631346986
- 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
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 904 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 November 2013.
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 3 November 2013
904 m awayRef 201363DP29413
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Powys, 17 December 2003
1.1 km awayRef 200363DP53203
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 25 June 2017
1.2 km awayRef 201763D057117
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 9 September 1990
1.5 km awayRef 199063B542790
Serious
BMW K Series crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 25 May 2021
1.7 km awayRef 202163D029821
Serious
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 1 September 2007
1.8 km awayRef 200763DP34407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 82, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2023631346986 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 2023.