Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL20 on 1 June 1981 at 15:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 15:15 on Monday 1 June 1981. The 35-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jun 1981
- Monday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97218, longitude -3.08701, in the LL20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981600D08057
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5434 in Wrexham, 27 July 1988
100 m awayRef 1988600D08095
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5434 in Wrexham, 9 December 1992
100 m awayRef 1992600D08107
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 22 June 1986
100 m awayRef 1986600D08073
Serious
Car crash on the B5434 in Wrexham, 28 June 2011
112 m awayRef 201160M104918
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 24 August 2024
130 m awayRef 202460Q127659
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 12 April 1992
141 m awayRef 1992600D08038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1981600D08057 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 1981.