Serious A5 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 17 June 1983 at 17:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey at 17:15 on Friday 17 June 1983. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jun 1983
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.24511, longitude -4.35585, in the LL77 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
- 1983600A04089
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1990.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 October 1990
At the same spotRef 1990600A04224
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 9 August 1989
At the same spotRef 1989600A04126
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600A04105
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 8 January 1994
At the same spotRef 1994600A02002
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 23 May 2025
60 m awayRef 202560C074433
Slight
Leyland crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 October 2009
81 m awayRef 2009609194785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1983600A04089 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 1983.