Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL14 on 28 December 1992 at 22:50 involving a Talbot Horizon
A Talbot Horizon crashed on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 22:50 on Monday 28 December 1992. The 17-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1992
- Monday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Talbot Horizon
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9822, longitude -3.07236, in the LL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Acrefair and Cefn-mawr.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992600D08112
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 4 November 1981
At the same spotRef 1981600D08127
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 30 March 1996
42 m awayRef 1996600WR5007
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 5 October 1998
50 m awayRef 1998600WR5025
Serious
Car crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 17 February 2012
91 m awayRef 201260N025470
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 24 January 1996
100 m awayRef 1996600WR5004
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A539 in Wrexham, 9 March 1990
100 m awayRef 1990600D08039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Talbot Horizon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,442 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Talbot Horizon)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Talbot Horizon)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1992600D08112 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 1992.