Fatal unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL57 on 12 June 1981 at 12:30 involving a bicycle
Two bicycles were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 12:30 on Friday 12 June 1981. The 19-year-old male cyclist was killed and the 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 12 Jun 1981
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19262, longitude -4.085, in the LL57 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981600A08066
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2006.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 5 January 2007
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 2 October 2011
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 5 February 1986
224 m awayRef 1986600A08006
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 4 October 1984
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
FatalMale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1981600A08066 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 1981.