A5 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 12 November 2015 at 16:20 involving a car
A car and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey at 16:20 on Thursday 12 November 2015. A 15-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22275, longitude -4.27425, in the LL60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gaerwen.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S173930
- 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
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 19 October 1998
36 m awayRef 1998600AN5052
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 30 October 1987
51 m awayRef 1987600A04152
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 26 January 1986
51 m awayRef 1986600A04015
Slight
BMW crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 22 February 1992
51 m awayRef 1992600A04022
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 June 1996
55 m awayRef 1996600AN5022
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 23 September 1982
75 m awayRef 1982600A04110
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201560S173930 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 2015.