Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL57 on 15 April 2017 at 14:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 14:45 on Saturday 15 April 2017. The 52-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.21001, longitude -4.16442, in the LL57 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bangor. It is one of the crashes that make up the Y Faenol, Gwynedd, LL57 2SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V053157
- 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
- Urban
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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 May 2018.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 9 May 2018
38 m awayRef 201860W060167
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 30 June 2003
46 m awayRef 2003600GN3066
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 20 December 2012
46 m awayRef 201260N208598
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 29 October 2002
74 m awayRef 2002600GN3121
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 18 January 1998
88 m awayRef 1998600GN3011
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 8 January 2003
94 m awayRef 2003600GN3003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201760V053157 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 2017.