Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL12 on 6 February 1988 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 16:00 on Saturday 6 February 1988. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 1988
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05853, longitude -2.97727, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988600D05117
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2014.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 22 December 2014
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 7 December 2013
73 m awayRef 201360P210408
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 10 September 1983
100 m awayRef 1983600D05253
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 5 September 1984
141 m awayRef 1984600D05225
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A5156 in Wrexham, 19 April 1984
141 m awayRef 1984600D07073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1988600D05117 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 1988.