A545 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 5 July 1980 at 19:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey at 19:30 on Saturday 5 July 1980. The 24-year-old male driver was 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
- 5 Jul 1980
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25145, longitude -4.11335, in the LL58 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980600A02045
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 545
- 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, 59 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 June 2019.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 10 June 2019
59 m awayRef 201960X080361
Serious
Car crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 23 February 2015
85 m awayRef 201560S025808
Slight
Car crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 February 1982
141 m awayRef 1982600A02005
Slight
Car crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 24 August 1990
141 m awayRef 1990600A05087
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 10 April 2000
224 m awayRef 2000600AN6021
Slight
Bedford crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 11 August 1996
304 m awayRef 1996600AN6042
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1980600A02045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1980.