Serious B4413 crash in Gwynedd on 3 December 1986 at 22:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the B4413 in Gwynedd at 22:15 on Wednesday 3 December 1986. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 3 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 22:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986600A13166
Council area: Gwynedd
Police force: North Wales

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 4413
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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Raining with high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1986600A13166 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.