B4415 crash in Gwynedd on 18 August 2008 at 03:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4415 in Gwynedd at 03:40 on Monday 18 August 2008. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2008
- Monday, 03:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.88309, longitude -4.52738, in the LL53 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608157479
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4415
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 490 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B4415 in Gwynedd, 24 September 1987
490 m awayRef 1987600A13130
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B4415 in Gwynedd, 30 May 1991
671 m awayRef 1991600A13052
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B4415 in Gwynedd, 2 November 1991
972 m awayRef 1991600A13136
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 23 April 2004
1.0 km awayRef 2004600GN7015
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 8 July 2011
1.2 km awayRef 201160M111065
Serious
Car crash on the B4415 in Gwynedd, 13 June 2021
1.3 km awayRef 202160Z084420
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008608157479 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 2008.