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Serious A494 crash in Gwynedd on 22 December 1995 at 07:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A494 in Gwynedd at 07:00 on Friday 22 December 1995. The 67-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Dec 1995
Friday, 07:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.7731, longitude -3.78766, in the LL40 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1995600B08058
Council area
Gwynedd
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
494
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural

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
Flood over 3cm deep

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    67 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1995600B08058 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 1995.