A55 crash in Flintshire on 11 February 1987 at 01:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A55 in Flintshire at 01:30 on Wednesday 11 February 1987. The 19-year-old female driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 1987
- Wednesday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25506, longitude -3.20959, in the CH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987600C01020
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 55
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 22 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600C01170
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 3 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994600C09053
Serious
Lorry crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 5 February 1993
100 m awayRef 1993600C09013
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 2 October 1979
100 m awayRef 1979600C01192
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 8 September 1979
100 m awayRef 1979600C01179
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 25 January 2016
108 m awayRef 201660U011930
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1987600C01020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Flintshire road accident statistics for 1987.