Serious A498 crash in Gwynedd on 15 January 2005 at 04:00 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A498 in Gwynedd at 04:00 on Saturday 15 January 2005. A 22-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2005
- Saturday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94909, longitude -4.10786, in the LL49 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005600GN6002
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 498
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 July 2017.
Serious
Car crash on the A498 in Gwynedd, 22 July 2017
16 m awayRef 201760V110346
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A498 in Gwynedd, 19 April 2019
60 m awayRef 201960X053170
Serious
Mini Clubman crash on the A498 in Gwynedd, 23 May 2023
113 m awayRef 202360A077408
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 11 March 2000
241 m awayRef 2000600GN6006
Serious
Car crash on the A498 in Gwynedd, 18 December 1995
241 m awayRef 1995600A12041
Slight
Car crash on the A498 in Gwynedd, 25 August 1984
268 m awayRef 1984600A12076
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2005600GN6002 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 2005.