Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL12 on 2 September 1980 at 10:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 10:00 on Tuesday 2 September 1980. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 1980
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10146, longitude -3.00363, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llay.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980600D07162
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1997.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5373 in Wrexham, 25 April 1997
71 m awayRef 1997600WR3044
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5373 in Wrexham, 14 October 2003
73 m awayRef 2003600WR3131
Slight
Lorry crash on the B5373 in Wrexham, 16 October 2020
79 m awayRef 202060Y152517
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5373 in Wrexham, 14 July 1980
100 m awayRef 1980600D07129
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5373 in Wrexham, 18 December 1990
100 m awayRef 1990600D05926
Slight
Car crash on the B5373 in Wrexham, 22 February 1981
100 m awayRef 1981600D07044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 1980600D07162 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 1980.