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A55 crash in Denbighshire on 20 August 1985 at 12:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A55 in Denbighshire at 12:20 on Tuesday 20 August 1985. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Aug 1985
Tuesday, 12:20
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26757, longitude -3.38238, 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
1985600C04142
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
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1985600C04142 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 1985.