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Serious A544 crash in Conwy on 21 June 1997 at 03:05 involving a car

A car crashed on the A544 in Conwy at 03:05 on Saturday 21 June 1997. The 17-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Jun 1997
Saturday, 03:05
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.17702, longitude -3.5861, in the LL16 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Conwy

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997600CO9042
Council area
Conwy
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
544
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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 222 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, 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 1997600CO9042 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Conwy road accident statistics for 1997.