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Serious A5 crash in Gwynedd on 30 September 1997 at 16:50 involving a Ford Fiesta

A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A5 in Gwynedd at 16:50 on Tuesday 30 September 1997. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Sep 1997
Tuesday, 16:50
Vehicles
1
Ford Fiesta
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18151, longitude -4.0668, in the LL57 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bethesda.

Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997600GN2044
Council area
Gwynedd
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5
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
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 6 June 2012.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    1,118 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1997600GN2044 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.