Unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL57 on 5 August 1980 at 15:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 15:30 on Tuesday 5 August 1980. A 64-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 1980
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.17966, longitude -4.05444, in the LL57 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bethesda.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980600A08082
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1998.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 30 June 1998
36 m awayRef 1998600GN2027
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 19 June 1997
54 m awayRef 1997600GN2026
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 6 March 1982
100 m awayRef 1982600A08022
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 21 September 2013
130 m awayRef 201360P157062
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 30 April 2002
132 m awayRef 2002600GN2011
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 8 June 1982
141 m awayRef 1982600A08062
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 1980600A08082 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 1980.