Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL40 on 25 April 1989 at 18:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 18:10 on Tuesday 25 April 1989. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Apr 1989
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74199, longitude -3.8812, in the LL40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dolgellau.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989600B08049
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1979.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A470 in Gwynedd, 2 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979600B08082
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A470 in Gwynedd, 12 August 1980
At the same spotRef 1980600B08060
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 5 May 1992
At the same spotRef 1992600B08027
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 1 March 1990
At the same spotRef 1990600B08014
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 5 July 2001
45 m awayRef 2001600GS1021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 10 January 1997
45 m awayRef 1997600GS1001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1989600B08049 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 1989.