Serious A487 crash in Gwynedd on 12 December 1986 at 17:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A487 in Gwynedd at 17:00 on Friday 12 December 1986. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 12 Dec 1986; Friday, 17:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986600A09176
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: B
Second road number: 4086

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 (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
22 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1986600A09176 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.