B4547 crash in Gwynedd on 5 November 1997 at 08:20 involving a Peugeot 306
A car, a Peugeot 306 and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd at 08:20 on Wednesday 5 November 1997. The 29-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 and the 58-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 1997
- Wednesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 306 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18605, longitude -4.17045, in the LL56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997600GN1087
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 2019.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 22 February 2019
10 m awayRef 201960X024823
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 2 August 2012
10 m awayRef 201260N126536
Slight
Car crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 9 April 1997
10 m awayRef 1997600GN1026
Slight
Car crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 4 January 1997
10 m awayRef 1997600GN4001
Slight
Car crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 31 August 2020
12 m awayRef 202060Y128188
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4547 in Gwynedd, 9 January 2013
50 m awayRef 201360P004551
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Sierra)
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 1997600GN1087 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 1997.