Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL55 on 6 April 2015 at 10:50 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 10:50 on Monday 6 April 2015. The 66-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Apr 2015
- Monday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.1334, longitude -4.26987, in the LL55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caernarfon.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S047956
- 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
- 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
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2009.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 19 August 2009
2 m awayRef 2009609157709
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 3 September 2010
20 m awayRef 201060L164996
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 26 September 2010
30 m awayRef 201060L180142
Slight
Audi 90 crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 22 November 1997
30 m awayRef 1997600GN1097
Slight
Van crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 14 April 2014
37 m awayRef 201460R055472
Slight
Honda C90M crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 22 August 2003
40 m awayRef 2003600GN1080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 66, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201560S047956 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 2015.