A494 crash in Denbighshire on 11 March 1987 at 10:15 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A494 in Denbighshire at 10:15 on Wednesday 11 March 1987. The 26-year-old male driver of the lorry and the 26-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 1987
- Wednesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.11909, longitude -3.23266, in the CH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987600D02018
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 494
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5430
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 11 April 1986.
Fatal
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 11 April 1986
At the same spotRef 1986600D02028
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 2 September 1998
50 m awayRef 1998600DE6074
Slight
Fiat Fiorino crash on the B5430 in Denbighshire, 25 November 2025
70 m awayRef 202560C182882
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 13 April 2009
70 m awayRef 2009609010295
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 9 April 2011
71 m awayRef 201160M056196
Serious
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 22 January 1997
81 m awayRef 1997600DE6005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 1987600D02018 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 1987.