Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL57 on 9 April 1997 at 18:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 18:25 on Wednesday 9 April 1997. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Apr 1997
- Wednesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18192, longitude -4.05874, in the LL57 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bethesda.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997600GN2018
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 49 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 26 December 2017
49 m awayRef 201760V193370
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 9 February 1988
63 m awayRef 1988600A08006
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 18 March 2003
80 m awayRef 2003600GN5007
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 25 July 2011
85 m awayRef 201160M122274
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 6 May 1980
89 m awayRef 1980600A08045
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 2 April 1982
89 m awayRef 1982600A08034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1997600GN2018 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.