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Serious A5 crash in Wrexham on 30 October 1987 at 15:12 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on the A5 in Wrexham at 15:12 on Friday 30 October 1987. A 38-year-old female pedestrian and a 5-year-old male pedestrian were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Oct 1987
Friday, 15:12
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94098, longitude -3.05795, in the LL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chirk.

Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987600D04079
Council area
Wrexham
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
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 21 December 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    54 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 1987600D04079 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 1987.