Unclassified road crash in Powys LD3 on 6 May 2023 at 02:32 involving a car
Three cars and two vans were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Powys at 02:32 on Saturday 6 May 2023. A 17-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and the 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2023
- Saturday, 02:32
- Vehicles
- 5
- Car and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94337, longitude -3.37824, in the LD3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brecon.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202363D034823
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2017.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 6 February 2017
61 m awayRef 201763DP04817
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4601 in Powys, 13 August 1993
103 m awayRef 199363D525693
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 20 August 1988
112 m awayRef 198863D528988
Serious
Car crash on the B4601 in Powys, 21 July 1988
112 m awayRef 198863D523488
Fatal
Car crash on the A40 in Powys, 3 April 1980
112 m awayRef 19806380D0095
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4601 in Powys, 28 April 1991
121 m awayRef 199163D513791
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 3: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 30 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 202363D034823 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.