Unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL49 on 19 August 1998 at 19:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 19:10 on Wednesday 19 August 1998. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1998
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93708, longitude -4.14145, in the LL49 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600GN6030
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 1988.
Slight
Van crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 7 June 1988
22 m awayRef 1988600A12054
Slight
Van crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 12 January 1979
112 m awayRef 1979600A12004
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 11 May 1985
112 m awayRef 1985600A12039
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 15 September 2004
114 m awayRef 2004600GN6031
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 25 May 1985
120 m awayRef 1985600A12045
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 22 July 2011
125 m awayRef 201160M120122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, 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 1998600GN6030 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 1998.