A470 crash in Powys on 5 July 2024 at 13:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Grand C-Max were involved in a crash on the A470 in Powys at 13:40 on Friday 5 July 2024. A 57-year-old female passenger in the Ford Grand C-Max, the 34-year-old female driver of the Ford Grand C-Max and the 71-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2024
- Friday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Grand C-Max
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40772, longitude -3.57116, in the SY18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024631463992
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 18 December 1979
27 m awayRef 19796379D0451
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Powys, 13 September 1986
27 m awayRef 19866386D0277
Slight
Van crash on the A470 in Powys, 19 November 1979
27 m awayRef 19796379D0417
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A470 in Powys, 1 December 2007
27 m awayRef 200763DP46307
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A470 in Powys, 27 December 2014
35 m awayRef 201463DP37114
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A470 in Powys, 5 July 2002
42 m awayRef 200263DP24402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Grand C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Grand C-Max)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Grand C-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2024631463992 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.