Serious B4401 crash in Denbighshire on 25 May 1980 at 00:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4401 in Denbighshire at 00:40 on Sunday 25 May 1980. The 37-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 May 1980
- Sunday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92987, longitude -3.4311, in the LL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980600D11047
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4401
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 22 March 1991
141 m awayRef 1991600D11029
Serious
Car crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 26 August 1980
200 m awayRef 1980600D11088
Slight
Car crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 23 December 2013
394 m awayRef 201360P208488
Slight
Van crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 29 August 1979
400 m awayRef 1979600D11105
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 18 August 2013
453 m awayRef 201360P136575
Slight
Car crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 28 May 1979
583 m awayRef 1979600D11060
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 1980600D11047 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Denbighshire road accident statistics for 1980.