A497 crash in Gwynedd on 28 September 2023 at 09:54 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A497 in Gwynedd at 09:54 on Thursday 28 September 2023. A 40-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2023
- Thursday, 09:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91932, longitude -4.23594, in the LL52 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202360A156311
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 497
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A497 in Gwynedd, 30 August 1986
32 m awayRef 1986600A12080
Slight
Car crash on the A497 in Gwynedd, 7 June 2014
86 m awayRef 201460R085150
Slight
Car crash on the A497 in Gwynedd, 6 September 1998
92 m awayRef 1998600GN6031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gwynedd, 29 February 2016
98 m awayRef 201660U029662
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A497 in Gwynedd, 16 August 2023
117 m awayRef 202360A130887
Slight
Car crash on the A497 in Gwynedd, 22 August 1980
131 m awayRef 1980600A12094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 202360A156311 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 2023.