A44 crash in Powys on 30 October 2025 at 16:00 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the A44 in Powys at 16:00 on Thursday 30 October 2025. The 34-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van and a 40-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Transporter van 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
- 30 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.22576, longitude -3.23195, in the LD8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Radnor, Powys, LD8 2TP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Powys
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025631661402
- Council area
- Powys
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 44
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2012.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A44 in Powys, 18 April 2012
12 m awayRef 201263DP06812
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A44 in Powys, 31 March 2009
22 m awayRef 200963DP05809
Slight
Car crash on the A44 in Powys, 8 February 1997
39 m awayRef 199763D503797
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A44 in Powys, 19 June 1983
58 m awayRef 19836383D0161
Fatal
Kawasaki EX305 crash on the A44 in Powys, 30 August 1994
58 m awayRef 199463D529894
Serious
Honda CBR600RR crash on the A44 in Powys, 15 July 2013
70 m awayRef 201363DP18813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025631661402 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 2025.