Unclassified road crash on the Isle of Anglesey LL68 on 22 May 1979 at 00:20 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey at 00:20 on Tuesday 22 May 1979. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 1979
- Tuesday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38887, longitude -4.44951, in the LL68 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600A01025
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 8 October 1980
100 m awayRef 1980600A01076
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 18 February 2006
130 m awayRef 2006600AN3011
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 15 April 1992
141 m awayRef 1992600A01020
Slight
Talbot Sunbeam crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 25 April 1991
141 m awayRef 1991600A01021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 20 September 2015
283 m awayRef 201560S145671
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 29 May 2019
401 m awayRef 201960X074043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1979600A01025 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.