A5 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 31 October 2008 at 14:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey at 14:15 on Friday 31 October 2008. The 50-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2008
- Friday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23636, longitude -4.32021, in the LL77 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608207587
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 26 January 1998
10 m awayRef 1998600AN4002
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 October 2017
60 m awayRef 201760V157136
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 25 December 1988
71 m awayRef 1988600A04197
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 May 1987
71 m awayRef 1987600A04070
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 22 April 1985
71 m awayRef 1985600A04054
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 July 1980
71 m awayRef 1980600A04082
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, 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 2008608207587 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 2008.