Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 26 April 1979 at 23:30 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 23:30 on Thursday 26 April 1979. A 25-year-old female passenger in the car was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 1979
- Thursday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0423, longitude -2.98287, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600D05117
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 1998.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 24 July 1998
81 m awayRef 1998600WR1217
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 4 September 2000
98 m awayRef 2000600WR1230
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 31 August 1989
100 m awayRef 1989600D05638
Slight
Audi 100 crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 1 August 1995
100 m awayRef 1995600D05207
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 10 February 2006
103 m awayRef 2006600WR1056
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 April 2003
130 m awayRef 2003600WR1093
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 1979600D05117 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.