A545 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 8 September 2012 at 11:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey at 11:40 on Saturday 8 September 2012. The 45-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25822, longitude -4.10159, in the LL58 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
- 201260N150277
- 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
- 545
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 October 2014.
Serious
Car crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 30 October 2014
17 m awayRef 201460R171199
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 3 September 2003
28 m awayRef 2003600AN6048
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 19 January 2010
172 m awayRef 201060L010917
Slight
Freight Rover crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 12 September 1994
192 m awayRef 1994600A05050
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 10 March 2009
194 m awayRef 2009609043433
Serious
Car crash on the A545 on the Isle of Anglesey, 23 August 1980
255 m awayRef 1980600A02061
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- 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
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201260N150277 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 2012.