A546 crash in Conwy on 14 December 1979 at 17:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A546 in Conwy at 17:05 on Friday 14 December 1979. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1979
- Friday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32197, longitude -3.81654, in the LL30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llandudno.
Map of where the crash happened in Conwy
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600B03190
- Council area
- Conwy
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 546
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 1986.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Conwy, 19 April 1986
At the same spotRef 1986600B03057
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A546 in Conwy, 30 October 1993
At the same spotRef 1993600B03116
Serious
Car crash on the A546 in Conwy, 26 May 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600B03096
Slight
Car crash on the B5115 in Conwy, 28 November 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600B03204
Serious
Car crash on the A546 in Conwy, 5 December 2008
14 m awayRef 2008608023111
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5115 in Conwy, 27 October 1998
20 m awayRef 1998600CO1123
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1979600B03190 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Conwy road accident statistics for 1979.