A4085 crash in Gwynedd on 31 October 1985 at 16:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4085 in Gwynedd at 16:40 on Thursday 31 October 1985. The 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 13-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 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
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12445, longitude -4.22519, in the LL55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985600A10103
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4085
- 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, 79 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A4085 in Gwynedd, 24 August 2016
79 m awayRef 201660U127681
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A4085 in Gwynedd, 26 August 2006
100 m awayRef 200660GN10540
Serious
Car crash on the A4085 in Gwynedd, 27 September 1981
100 m awayRef 1981600A10087
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the A4085 in Gwynedd, 6 November 2002
102 m awayRef 2002600GN5035
Serious
Car crash on the A4085 in Gwynedd, 16 August 2018
107 m awayRef 201860W116219
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 7 May 1989
141 m awayRef 1989600A10039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, 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 1985600A10103 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 1985.