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Fatal A55 crash in Denbighshire on 16 February 1983 at 18:00 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on the A55 in Denbighshire at 18:00 on Wednesday 16 February 1983. An 8-year-old male pedestrian and a 4-year-old female pedestrian were killed.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
16 Feb 1983
Wednesday, 18:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26962, longitude -3.5099, in the LL18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bodelwyddan.

Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983600C04020
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
Footbridge or subway

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 June 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    57 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1983600C04020 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 1983.