A497 crash in Gwynedd on 14 December 1986 at 14:40 involving a car

A car crashed on the A497 in Gwynedd at 14:40 on Sunday 14 December 1986. A 21-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 14 Dec 1986; Sunday, 14:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986600A12128
Council area: Gwynedd
Police force: North Wales

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 497
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: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear 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 1986600A12128 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.