B4573 crash in Gwynedd on 11 October 2008 at 16:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd at 16:00 on Saturday 11 October 2008. The 36-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87301, longitude -4.08321, in the LL46 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608194758
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4573
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 175 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 January 1991.
Serious
Car crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 20 January 1991
175 m awayRef 1991600B09003
Slight
Car crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 12 July 1987
450 m awayRef 1987600B09040
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 27 June 2009
484 m awayRef 2009609118436
Serious
Car crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 23 June 1984
535 m awayRef 1984600B09023
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 29 July 1983
595 m awayRef 1983600B09047
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4573 in Gwynedd, 16 December 1991
595 m awayRef 1991600B09081
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2008608194758 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.