Unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL57 on 21 July 1979 at 13:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 13:30 on Saturday 21 July 1979. The 32-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1979
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18672, longitude -4.06227, in the LL57 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600A08060
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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 15 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 15 December 1979
100 m awayRef 1979600A08105
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 8 June 1991
100 m awayRef 1991600A10069
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 11 May 1986
100 m awayRef 1986600A08027
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 13 May 1993
141 m awayRef 1993600A08025
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 1 July 1986
141 m awayRef 1986600A08041
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 23 July 1993
141 m awayRef 1993600A08036
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1979600A08060 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gwynedd road accident statistics for 1979.