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A487 crash in Gwynedd on 15 September 1983 at 11:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A487 in Gwynedd at 11:00 on Thursday 15 September 1983. An 83-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
15 Sep 1983
Thursday, 11:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92659, longitude -4.13022, in the LL49 postcode district and within the built-up area of Porthmadog.

Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983600A12091
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
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    60 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1983600A12091 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.