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A55 crash in Denbighshire on 8 October 1981 at 09:05 involving a van

Two vans were involved in a crash on the A55 in Denbighshire at 09:05 on Thursday 8 October 1981. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
8 Oct 1981
Thursday, 09:05
Vehicles
2
Van and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26619, longitude -3.49629, in the LL18 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981600C04134
Council area
Denbighshire
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
55
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
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 25 February 1995.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

  • Vehicle 2: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    45 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)

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 1981600C04134 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 1981.