Unclassified road crash on the Isle of Anglesey LL68 on 15 April 1979 at 03:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey at 03:20 on Sunday 15 April 1979. A 48-year-old male passenger and the 45-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 1979
- Sunday, 03:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40035, longitude -4.32531, in the LL68 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600A01015
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 341 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2004.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 August 2000
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 1979600A01015 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1979.