Serious B4422 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 23 August 1985 at 00:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey at 00:40 on Friday 23 August 1985. The 20-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 1985
- Friday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22029, longitude -4.38295, in the LL62 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
- 1985600A04107
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4422
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 17 June 2005
92 m awayRef 2005600AN5033
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 3 December 1997
141 m awayRef 1997600AN4058
Serious
Toyota Cressida crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 18 July 1990
141 m awayRef 1990600A04151
Slight
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 7 December 2012
311 m awayRef 201260N201509
Slight
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 9 February 1979
361 m awayRef 1979600A04025
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 March 2004
375 m awayRef 2004600AN5010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1985600A04107 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 1985.