Serious A483 crash in Wrexham on 19 August 1984 at 22:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A483 in Wrexham at 22:20 on Sunday 19 August 1984. The 22-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 25-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Aug 1984
- Sunday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.11367, longitude -2.93968, in the LL12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984600D07166
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 22 March 1988.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 22 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600D05234
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 2 December 2001
41 m awayRef 2001600WR3158
Slight
Car crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 15 May 2017
46 m awayRef 201760V069816
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 20 February 2002
78 m awayRef 2002600WR3030
Slight
Honda CRX crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 4 June 2005
78 m awayRef 2005600WR3068
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 4 September 1997
78 m awayRef 1997600WR3129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1984600D07166 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 1984.