B5381 crash in Denbighshire on 2 September 1983 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5381 in Denbighshire at 17:50 on Friday 2 September 1983. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 1983
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23269, longitude -3.44268, in the LL17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983600D01113
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5381
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B5381 in Denbighshire, 2 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980600D01156
Slight
Car crash on the B5381 in Denbighshire, 25 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985600D01160
Slight
Car crash on the B5381 in Denbighshire, 7 April 1989
At the same spotRef 1989600D01048
Slight
Car crash on the B5381 in Denbighshire, 21 October 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600D01170
Slight
Kawasaki ER650 crash on the B5381 in Denbighshire, 3 October 2024
26 m awayRef 202460Q149566
Fatal
Car crash on the B5381 in Denbighshire, 26 May 2011
32 m awayRef 201160M084698
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1983600D01113 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.