Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL14 on 30 May 1987 at 23:38 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 23:38 on Saturday 30 May 1987. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 1987
- Saturday, 23:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97671, longitude -3.08265, in the LL14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987600D08073
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1979.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 23 November 1979
100 m awayRef 1979600D08131
Slight
Car crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 29 April 1983
100 m awayRef 1983600D08052
Slight
Car crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 16 December 1982
141 m awayRef 1982600D08141
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 12 October 1982
141 m awayRef 1982600D08111
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 3 July 1981
141 m awayRef 1981600D08069
Slight
Car crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 9 May 1982
141 m awayRef 1982600D08054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1987600D08073 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.