Serious unclassified road crash in Powys LD3 on 16 April 2024 at 16:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Powys at 16:10 on Tuesday 16 April 2024. An 18-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Apr 2024
- Tuesday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94234, longitude -3.37502, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024631432347
- 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
- 20 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
- Less 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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 11 April 2012
45 m awayRef 201263DP08212
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Powys, 18 August 1979
80 m awayRef 19796379D0290
Serious
Car crash on the B4601 in Powys, 2 August 1982
80 m awayRef 19826382D0266
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 7 June 2001
97 m awayRef 200163DP08701
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 50 crash on an unclassified road in Powys, 14 January 2000
99 m awayRef 200063BB00800
Slight
Car crash on the B4601 in Powys, 4 December 1989
118 m awayRef 198963D541889
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024631432347 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 2024.