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Serious A497 crash in Gwynedd on 18 October 1979 at 18:50 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A497 in Gwynedd at 18:50 on Thursday 18 October 1979. A 20-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
Serious
Date
18 Oct 1979
Thursday, 18:50
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91806, longitude -4.51954, in the LL53 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979600A13158
Council area
Gwynedd
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
497
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, 150 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 October 2022.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

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

    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 1979600A13158 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.