B4422 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 6 July 1979 at 12:00 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey at 12:00 on Friday 6 July 1979. A 27-year-old female passenger in the car and a 46-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 1979
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25279, longitude -4.33079, in the LL77 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
- 1979600A04085
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4422
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the A4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 24 October 2002
100 m awayRef 2002600AN4070
Slight
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 2 May 2016
150 m awayRef 201660U062917
Slight
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 18 September 1988
224 m awayRef 1988600A04119
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 December 2005
224 m awayRef 2005600AN4068
Serious
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 8 February 2021
243 m awayRef 202160Z018031
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 21 August 2002
246 m awayRef 2002600AN4050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
Vehicle 2: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1979600A04085 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.