A499 crash in Gwynedd on 22 December 2000 at 06:25 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 crashed on the A499 in Gwynedd at 06:25 on Friday 22 December 2000. A 62-year-old male passenger and the 62-year-old female driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 06:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01637, longitude -4.37324, in the LL54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000600GN5062
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 499
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A499 in Gwynedd, 8 July 1979
100 m awayRef 1979600A11045
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A499 in Gwynedd, 16 August 1997
114 m awayRef 1997600GN5033
Slight
Van crash on the A499 in Gwynedd, 8 September 1982
200 m awayRef 1982600A11054
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the A499 in Gwynedd, 19 July 2001
358 m awayRef 2001600GN5016
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A499 in Gwynedd, 18 August 1981
424 m awayRef 1981600A11071
Slight
Car crash on the A499 in Gwynedd, 31 January 1988
447 m awayRef 1988600A11002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
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 2000600GN5062 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.