A5 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 10 October 2016 at 20:55 involving a car
A car and an agricultural vehicle were involved in a crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey at 20:55 on Monday 10 October 2016. The 82-year-old male driver of the car and the 42-year-old male driver of the agricultural vehicle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2016
- Monday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and agricultural vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25257, longitude -4.38312, in the LL65 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201660U154648
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 August 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 26 August 1987
15 m awayRef 1987600A04129
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 4 March 1986
15 m awayRef 1986600A04031
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 25 March 1996
33 m awayRef 1996600AN4009
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 21 August 1997
43 m awayRef 1997600AN5033
Slight
Van crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 7 January 1987
112 m awayRef 1987600A04004
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 11 December 2012
142 m awayRef 201260N203456
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
Vehicle 2: Agricultural vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, agricultural vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Agricultural 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 201660U154648 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 2016.