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Unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL55 on 9 August 1979 at 01:35 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 01:35 on Thursday 9 August 1979. A 29-year-old male pedestrian and a 20-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
9 Aug 1979
Thursday, 01:35
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.1576, longitude -4.23139, in the LL55 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979600A09134
Council area
Gwynedd
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 1979600A09134 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.