A487 crash in Gwynedd on 13 December 1986 at 22:05 involving a car

A car crashed on the A487 in Gwynedd at 22:05 on Saturday 13 December 1986. The 19-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old male passenger 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: 13 Dec 1986; Saturday, 22:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986600A09177
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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 16, 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 1986600A09177 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.