A5 crash in Gwynedd on 8 April 2004 at 04:10 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series crashed on the A5 in Gwynedd at 04:10 on Thursday 8 April 2004. The 19-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Apr 2004
- Thursday, 04:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2306, longitude -4.11252, in the LL57 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dwyrain Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 1DL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004600GN3035
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 August 2011.
Serious
Car crash on the A5122 in Gwynedd, 18 August 2011
14 m awayRef 201160M138435
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 5 April 2016
17 m awayRef 201660U048670
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 23 June 1979
22 m awayRef 1979600A07110
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 26 October 2005
22 m awayRef 2005600GN3092
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 12 January 2004
22 m awayRef 2004600GN3004
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Gwynedd, 9 June 1979
22 m awayRef 1979600A07104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004600GN3035 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 2004.