Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL12 on 10 August 1979 at 22:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 22:20 on Friday 10 August 1979. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 1979
- Friday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05489, longitude -2.98316, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979600D05221
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 December 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 30 December 1982
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 17 June 1980
At the same spotRef 1980600D05162
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 29 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983600D05205
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 28 June 2002
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Slight
Car crash on the B5101 in Wrexham, 14 June 2012
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1979600D05221 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.