Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL55 on 23 December 2015 at 17:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 17:25 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13364, longitude -4.26728, in the LL55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caernarfon.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S195587
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 1991.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 12 April 1991
85 m awayRef 1991600A09043
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 9 July 1981
122 m awayRef 1981600A09089
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 27 September 2014
136 m awayRef 201460R153778
Slight
Minibus crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 8 September 1984
146 m awayRef 1984600A09119
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 5 January 1979
146 m awayRef 1979600A09003
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 10 June 2015
174 m awayRef 201560S083671
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 201560S195587 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.