A470 crash in Conwy on 22 August 2018 at 11:50 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A470 in Conwy at 11:50 on Wednesday 22 August 2018. The 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and the 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2018
- Wednesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10073, longitude -3.78771, in the LL24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Conwy
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W119128
- Council area
- Conwy
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 470
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Conwy, 5 May 2018
1 m awayRef 201860W058139
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Conwy, 19 August 2017
2 m awayRef 201760V126194
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Conwy, 8 July 2014
7 m awayRef 201460R103706
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Conwy, 20 February 2014
9 m awayRef 201460R025980
Slight
Car crash on the A470 in Conwy, 15 September 2017
14 m awayRef 201760V141026
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A470 in Conwy, 21 October 2025
34 m awayRef 202560C163693
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- 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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 201860W119128 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Conwy road accident statistics for 2018.