A5 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 13 February 2022 at 19:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey at 19:55 on Sunday 13 February 2022. The 21-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2022
- Sunday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.24315, longitude -4.32886, in the LL77 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202260B021012
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 20 December 1984
24 m awayRef 1984600A04211
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 26 April 1997
91 m awayRef 1997600AN4021
Serious
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 15 July 1987
97 m awayRef 1987600A04098
Slight
Car crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 22 September 1988
97 m awayRef 1988600A04122
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 24 February 2005
108 m awayRef 2005600AN4007
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A5 on the Isle of Anglesey, 21 September 2009
114 m awayRef 2009609181781
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 202260B021012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 2022.