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Serious A483 crash in Wrexham on 25 May 1979 at 14:53 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the A483 in Wrexham at 14:53 on Friday 25 May 1979. The 48-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 May 1979
Friday, 14:53
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9598, longitude -3.06437, in the LL14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979600D04037
Council area
Wrexham
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
483
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 48, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1979600D04037 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wrexham road accident statistics for 1979.