A487 crash in Gwynedd on 2 April 1983 at 20:04 involving a minibus
A minibus and a car were involved in a crash on the A487 in Gwynedd at 20:04 on Saturday 2 April 1983. A 23-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1983
- Saturday, 20:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Minibus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9381, longitude -4.13971, in the LL49 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983600A12028
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 487
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2004.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 15 September 2004
54 m awayRef 2004600GN6031
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 22 July 2011
60 m awayRef 201160M120122
Serious
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 13 September 2010
73 m awayRef 201060L171684
Slight
Skoda Rapid crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 10 January 2022
75 m awayRef 202260B004280
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 25 May 1985
100 m awayRef 1985600A12045
Slight
Van crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 12 January 1979
100 m awayRef 1979600A12004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 1983600A12028 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 1983.