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A494 crash in Flintshire on 28 August 1979 at 22:55 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A494 in Flintshire at 22:55 on Tuesday 28 August 1979. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Aug 1979
Tuesday, 22:55
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19732, longitude -3.0418, in the CH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aston.

Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979600C09078
Council area
Flintshire
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
494
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2024.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    U-turn
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    South East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside, crossed central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    43 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 21, 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 1979600C09078 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Flintshire road accident statistics for 1979.