Serious unclassified road crash on the Isle of Anglesey LL61 on 26 July 1989 at 09:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey at 09:40 on Wednesday 26 July 1989. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jul 1989
- Wednesday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22069, longitude -4.22268, in the LL61 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989600A05058
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 October 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 22 October 1988
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Leyland Constructor crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 15 December 2000
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Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 8 March 1990
200 m awayRef 1990600A05029
Serious
Bus crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 3 April 1986
200 m awayRef 1986600A05030
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 May 1981
200 m awayRef 1981600A05036
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 26 August 1989
224 m awayRef 1989600A05070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,809 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1989600A05058 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1989.