A487 crash in Gwynedd on 12 December 1984 at 20:35 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A487 in Gwynedd at 20:35 on Wednesday 12 December 1984. The 24-year-old male driver of the car, a 41-year-old female passenger in the car and a 39-year-old female passenger in the other vehicle were 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
- 12 Dec 1984
- Wednesday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18319, longitude -4.20877, in the LL56 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984600A09171
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 23 February 1987
At the same spotRef 1987600A09027
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 25 February 1985
At the same spotRef 1985600A09032
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 27 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985600A09137
Serious
Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 28 December 2025
58 m awayRef 202560C200077
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 10 November 2010
92 m awayRef 201060L209528
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 17 February 2000
100 m awayRef 2000600GN1005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other 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 1984600A09171 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 1984.