A5151 crash in Denbighshire on 7 February 1990 at 17:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A5151 in Denbighshire at 17:15 on Wednesday 7 February 1990. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1990
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30711, longitude -3.38365, in the LL18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990600C02032
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5151
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1990.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 2 March 1990
At the same spotRef 1990600C02054
Slight
Van crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 18 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981600C02241
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 1 March 1994
At the same spotRef 1994600C04025
Serious
Car crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 9 March 1980
At the same spotRef 1980600C02035
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A5151 in Flintshire, 28 April 2010
28 m awayRef 201060L072867
Slight
Car crash on the A5151 in Flintshire, 10 March 2020
40 m awayRef 202060Y033758
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1990600C02032 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 1990.