A496 crash in Gwynedd on 10 April 2015 at 14:43 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A496 in Gwynedd at 14:43 on Friday 10 April 2015. The 55-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 45-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2015
- Friday, 14:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78566, longitude -4.09616, in the LL44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S050438
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 496
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 23 May 2016
19 m awayRef 201660U074216
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 21 July 2022
23 m awayRef 202260B107467
Slight
Car crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 4 June 2010
25 m awayRef 201060L098979
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 26 February 1996
53 m awayRef 1996600ME3001
Serious
Car crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 8 January 1993
66 m awayRef 1993600B06001
Serious
Car crash on the A496 in Gwynedd, 6 January 1988
66 m awayRef 1988600B06001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, 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 201560S050438 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.