Serious B4418 crash in Gwynedd on 27 December 2015 at 02:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4418 in Gwynedd at 02:10 on Sunday 27 December 2015. The 35-year-old male driver and a 32-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05206, longitude -4.25638, in the LL54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S197325
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4418
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 July 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the B4418 in Gwynedd, 18 July 2016
12 m awayRef 201660U105455
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4418 in Gwynedd, 5 May 2010
17 m awayRef 201060L077710
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4418 in Gwynedd, 15 August 2004
24 m awayRef 2004600GN5021
Slight
Car crash on the B4418 in Gwynedd, 18 June 1989
43 m awayRef 1989600A11045
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 20 July 1990
104 m awayRef 1990600A11059
Slight
Car crash on the B4418 in Gwynedd, 10 December 1980
121 m awayRef 1980600A11095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201560S197325 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.