Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL46 on 6 May 1989 at 23:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 23:30 on Saturday 6 May 1989. A 25-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 1989
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.85586, longitude -4.11338, in the LL46 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989600B09024
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 5 June 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 5 June 2000
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Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 5 November 2010
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Serious
Car crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 30 June 1979
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Serious
Car crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 28 July 1981
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Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 18 August 2009
151 m awayRef 2009609156894
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 11 May 2006
180 m awayRef 200660GS40110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,093 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 25, 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 1989600B09024 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.