Serious A4871 crash in Gwynedd on 6 May 2025 at 11:11 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on the A4871 in Gwynedd at 11:11 on Tuesday 6 May 2025. The 35-year-old male driver of the Kia Sportage and a 59-year-old female passenger in the Kia Sportage were seriously injured and the 61-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 2025
- Tuesday, 11:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.165, longitude -4.24328, in the LL55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Gwynedd
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202560C064663
- Council area
- Gwynedd
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4871
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 2023.
Serious
Vauxhall Antara crash on the A4871 in Gwynedd, 22 November 2023
15 m awayRef 202360A185365
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 29 February 2004
28 m awayRef 2004600GN1023
Fatal
Dennis crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 13 November 2001
56 m awayRef 2001600GN1096
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 13 August 1985
57 m awayRef 1985600A09126
Slight
Car crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 5 November 1989
57 m awayRef 1989600A09128
Slight
Bedford crash on the A487 in Gwynedd, 10 October 1990
57 m awayRef 1990600A09124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
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
- 61 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Sportage)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 202560C064663 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 2025.