Serious B4401 crash in Denbighshire on 4 September 1981 at 00:55 involving a van
A van crashed on the B4401 in Denbighshire at 00:55 on Friday 4 September 1981. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Sep 1981
- Friday, 00:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92353, longitude -3.43535, 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
- 1981600D11075
- 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
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2021.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 3 September 2021
40 m awayRef 202160Z130284
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 8 April 1982
100 m awayRef 1982600D11030
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 26 July 1995
141 m awayRef 1995600D11116
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 22 February 1990
141 m awayRef 1990600D11031
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 7 September 1989
141 m awayRef 1989600D11137
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 3 September 1989
141 m awayRef 1989600D11136
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, 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 1981600D11075 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.