Serious A4080 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 1 March 1980 at 19:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey at 19:30 on Saturday 1 March 1980. The 20-year-old male driver 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
- 1 Mar 1980
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23645, longitude -4.47227, in the LL63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980600A06026
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4080
- 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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 18 April 1985
100 m awayRef 1985600A06034
Slight
Car crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 March 2017
129 m awayRef 201760V029154
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 4 February 2006
146 m awayRef 2006600AN2007
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 May 1982
224 m awayRef 1982600A06032
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 29 June 1985
224 m awayRef 1985600A06060
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 6 March 2013
340 m awayRef 201360P034523
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, 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 1980600A06026 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.