A5 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 18 January 2017 at 16:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey at 16:50 on Wednesday 18 January 2017. The 23-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 21-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2017
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.28541, longitude -4.56773, in the LL65 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bro'r Llynnoedd, Isle of Anglesey, LL65 3FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V008175
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2021.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 9 November 2021
7 m awayRef 202160Z164363
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 August 2011
8 m awayRef 201160M136655
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 7 November 2000
17 m awayRef 2000600AN2059
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 29 November 2011
22 m awayRef 201160M199151
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 18 June 1999
30 m awayRef 1999600AN2041
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 17 June 2002
36 m awayRef 2002600AN1025
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201760V008175 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 2017.