Serious B4547 crash in Gwynedd on 2 September 1992 at 21:10 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B4547 in Gwynedd at 21:10 on Wednesday 2 September 1992. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured and an 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Sep 1992
- Wednesday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.17514, longitude -4.15748, in the LL55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992600A10094
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4547
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 106 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4244 in Gwynedd, 4 September 2007
106 m awayRef 200760GN10640
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4244 in Gwynedd, 19 April 2004
121 m awayRef 2004600GN4009
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4244 in Gwynedd, 8 June 2023
122 m awayRef 202360A087840
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 7 July 1995
141 m awayRef 1995600A10022
Slight
Car crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 18 October 1985
200 m awayRef 1985600A10099
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 9 January 2000
224 m awayRef 2000600GN4001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 1992600A10094 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 1992.