Unclassified road crash in Conwy LL29 on 18 October 2015 at 06:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Conwy at 06:45 on Sunday 18 October 2015. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.28993, longitude -3.70672, in the LL29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colwyn Bay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eirias, Conwy, LL29 9PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Conwy
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S159752
- Council area
- Conwy
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2002.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A547 in Conwy, 8 October 2002
5 m awayRef 2002600CO8037
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the A547 in Conwy, 3 May 2006
5 m awayRef 2006600CO7049
Slight
Car crash on the A547 in Conwy, 15 January 2012
5 m awayRef 201260N007664
Slight
Car crash on the A457 in Conwy, 16 July 2008
12 m awayRef 2008608133286
Slight
Car crash on the A547 in Conwy, 17 July 1998
12 m awayRef 1998600CO8019
Serious
Car crash on the A547 in Conwy, 1 October 2017
13 m awayRef 201760V149371
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 201560S159752 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Conwy road accident statistics for 2015.