B5429 crash in Denbighshire on 31 October 1979 at 09:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire at 09:00 on Wednesday 31 October 1979. The 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1979
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.28573, longitude -3.44297, in the LL18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600C04138
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5429
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 May 2002.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 29 May 2002
58 m awayRef 2002600DE4046
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 20 May 2002
58 m awayRef 2002600DE4044
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 12 October 1983
100 m awayRef 1983600C04145
Slight
Car crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 28 January 1985
100 m awayRef 1985600C04020
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 30 September 1997
102 m awayRef 1997600DE4098
Serious
Car crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 5 January 2017
116 m awayRef 201760V002115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1979600C04138 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Denbighshire road accident statistics for 1979.