Unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL54 on 30 September 2009 at 21:36 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 21:36 on Wednesday 30 September 2009. The 19-year-old male driver, a 14-year-old female passenger and a 14-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2009
- Wednesday, 21:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06628, longitude -4.28135, in the LL54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009609187610
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 64 metres away, was a fatal crash on 26 November 1983.
Fatal
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 26 November 1983
64 m awayRef 1983600A11144
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 7 May 1983
64 m awayRef 1983600A11055
Serious
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 20 May 1980
64 m awayRef 1980600A11028
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 1 February 1991
64 m awayRef 1991600A11006
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 10 April 1991
64 m awayRef 1991600A11032
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 21 October 1984
64 m awayRef 1984600A11109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2009609187610 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 2009.