Serious B5112 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 15 January 1998 at 15:59 involving a Rover Mini
A Rover Mini and a Volkswagen Golf van were involved in a crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey at 15:59 on Thursday 15 January 1998. The 24-year-old male driver of the Rover Mini was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 1998
- Thursday, 15:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Mini and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30929, longitude -4.42349, in the LL71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600AN3002
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5112
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2006.
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 25 June 2006
130 m awayRef 2006600AN3034
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 22 October 2008
178 m awayRef 2008608201804
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 15 September 1993
221 m awayRef 1993600A01042
Slight
Car crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 10 May 1979
270 m awayRef 1979600A01023
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 2 September 1997
304 m awayRef 1997600AN3041
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 20 February 1998
344 m awayRef 1998600AN3007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- On lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Mini)
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 1998600AN3002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1998.