B4422 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 9 October 1998 at 15:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Rover Vitesse were involved in a crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey at 15:30 on Friday 9 October 1998. The 52-year-old male driver of the Rover Vitesse and the 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 1998
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Rover Vitesse
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23022, longitude -4.36297, in the LL62 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600AN4059
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4422
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 11 October 2000
14 m awayRef 2000600AN4057
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 November 2005
67 m awayRef 2005600AN4058
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 February 1992
92 m awayRef 1992600A04032
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the M56 in Cheshire East, 8 October 2003
104 m awayRef 2003070305738
Serious
Car crash on the B4422 on the Isle of Anglesey, 3 August 2013
200 m awayRef 201360P126632
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 8 July 1997
233 m awayRef 1997600AN4034
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Vitesse
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover Vitesse)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1998600AN4059 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.