Unclassified road crash in Conwy LL16 on 9 September 1979 at 18:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Conwy at 18:10 on Sunday 9 September 1979. An 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1, a 45-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 46-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 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
- 9 Sep 1979
- Sunday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20003, longitude -3.46703, in the LL16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600D01135
- Council area
- Conwy
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2010.
Slight
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Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the B5382 in Denbighshire, 4 January 2005
81 m awayRef 2005600DE5001
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B5428 in Denbighshire, 20 January 2004
130 m awayRef 2004600DE5006
Serious
Car crash on the B5428 in Denbighshire, 14 March 1989
200 m awayRef 1989600D01034
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 30 May 1993
224 m awayRef 1993600D01039
Serious
Car crash on the B5382 in Denbighshire, 3 March 1989
224 m awayRef 1989600D01029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1979600D01135 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.