Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL57 on 9 May 2018 at 06:50 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 06:50 on Wednesday 9 May 2018. The 72-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 May 2018
- Wednesday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20987, longitude -4.16494, 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
- 201860W060167
- 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
- Other 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 30 June 2003
16 m awayRef 2003600GN3066
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 20 December 2012
16 m awayRef 201260N208598
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 15 April 2017
38 m awayRef 201760V053157
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 29 October 2002
41 m awayRef 2002600GN3121
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 18 January 1998
54 m awayRef 1998600GN3011
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 19 December 1996
78 m awayRef 1996600GN3096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- 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
- 72 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201860W060167 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.