Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL55 on 5 March 2018 at 16:48 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 16:48 on Monday 5 March 2018. A 74-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Mar 2018
- Monday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14157, longitude -4.27409, in the LL55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caernarfon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Menai, Gwynedd, LL55 1PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W027752
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 21 June 2007
6 m awayRef 2007600GN1044
Slight
Ford crash on the B4419 in Gwynedd, 10 March 1991
13 m awayRef 1991600A09032
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 4 August 1979
13 m awayRef 1979600A09128
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 6 June 1980
13 m awayRef 1980600A09078
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 14 November 1996
13 m awayRef 1996600GN1056
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B4419 in Gwynedd, 1 October 1994
13 m awayRef 1994600A09083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201860W027752 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 2018.