Fatal A4087 crash in Gwynedd on 30 March 2021 at 21:14 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4087 in Gwynedd at 21:14 on Tuesday 30 March 2021. A 32-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and the 25-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 were killed and the 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 30 Mar 2021
- Tuesday, 21:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 killed, 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19928, longitude -4.17746, in the LL57 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Y Faenol, Gwynedd, LL57 4BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202160Z043388
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4087
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 December 1984.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A4087 in Gwynedd, 27 December 1984
53 m awayRef 1984600A07231
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4087 in Gwynedd, 14 August 2024
59 m awayRef 202460Q121682
Slight
Car crash on the A4087 in Gwynedd, 24 May 2014
144 m awayRef 201460R076797
Slight
ERF crash on the A4087 in Gwynedd, 4 December 2000
171 m awayRef 2000600GN3140
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 12 October 1999
182 m awayRef 1999600GN3089
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A4087 in Gwynedd, 5 August 2022
203 m awayRef 202260B116549
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
FatalFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 202160Z043388 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 2021.