A5122 crash in Gwynedd on 8 November 2000 at 22:05 involving a Renault 21
A Renault 21 crashed on the A5122 in Gwynedd at 22:05 on Wednesday 8 November 2000. The 18-year-old female driver and the 18-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2000
- Wednesday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 21
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22455, longitude -4.10908, in the LL57 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000600GN3135
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5122
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 9 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981600A07142
Serious
Car crash on the A5122 in Gwynedd, 1 December 1984
At the same spotRef 1984600A07209
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5122 in Gwynedd, 15 May 1999
At the same spotRef 1999600GN3039
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 30 March 2023
76 m awayRef 202360A045450
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 26 February 2015
81 m awayRef 201560S027433
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 24 August 2004
92 m awayRef 2004600GN3087
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 21
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 21)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 21)
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 2000600GN3135 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 2000.