Serious A5025 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 5 January 1992 at 19:00 involving an MG Metro
An MG Metro crashed on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey at 19:00 on Sunday 5 January 1992. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly 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
- 5 Jan 1992
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG Metro
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.371, longitude -4.30868, in the LL70 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992600A01001
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5025
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1991.
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Volkswagen crash on the B5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 26 April 1990
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 5 May 1998
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 November 2009
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Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 15 January 2004
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG Metro)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG Metro)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG Metro)
- 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 1992600A01001 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 1992.