Serious unclassified road crash in Gwynedd LL54 on 18 October 2018 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gwynedd at 15:15 on Thursday 18 October 2018. An 8-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 18 Oct 2018
- Thursday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07851, longitude -4.27899, in the LL54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W148908
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2009.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 31 October 2009
18 m awayRef 2009609207424
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 28 July 1984
38 m awayRef 1984600A11077
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 5 November 1999
62 m awayRef 1999600GN5038
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 11 July 1980
62 m awayRef 1980600A11046
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 17 July 1998
114 m awayRef 1998600GN5020
Serious
Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 16 June 1990
119 m awayRef 1990600A11050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 201860W148908 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.