A494 crash in Gwynedd on 30 April 2000 at 15:15 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2000
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90963, longitude -3.6, in the LL23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Y Bala.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000600GS6003
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 494
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Gwynedd, 14 November 1981
10 m awayRef 1981600B05071
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A494 in Gwynedd, 26 July 1995
10 m awayRef 1995600B05018
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Gwynedd, 13 January 1985
10 m awayRef 1985600B05004
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Gwynedd, 14 May 1985
10 m awayRef 1985600B05025
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A494 in Gwynedd, 7 August 2025
35 m awayRef 202560C121390
Slight
Honda crash on the A494 in Gwynedd, 5 May 2002
78 m awayRef 2002600GS6022
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 2000600GS6003 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.