Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL54 on 22 October 2008 at 05:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 05:00 on Wednesday 22 October 2008. The 41-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- 22 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07452, longitude -4.28298, in the LL54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608201266
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2001.
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 25 June 2001
100 m awayRef 2001600GN5015
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 26 July 1997
108 m awayRef 1997600GN5028
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 21 July 1994
136 m awayRef 1994600A11023
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 17 January 1985
136 m awayRef 1985600A11007
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 7 January 1998
179 m awayRef 1998600GN1001
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 24 December 1997
197 m awayRef 1997600GN5050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 41, 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 2008608201266 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.