A487 crash in Gwynedd on 10 December 1986 at 22:35 involving a car

A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A487 in Gwynedd at 22:35 on Wednesday 10 December 1986. The 18-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 10 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 22:35
Vehicles: 2; Car and motor scooter
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986600A09174
Council area: Gwynedd
Police force: North Wales

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 487
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
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: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
60 years
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 18, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)

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 1986600A09174 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 1986.