B5605 crash in Wrexham on 24 August 1993 at 15:50 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle, a Leyland Roadrunner lorry and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B5605 in Wrexham at 15:50 on Tuesday 24 August 1993. The 28-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 1993
- Tuesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Suzuki and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99776, longitude -3.04146, in the LL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhosllannerchrugog.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993600D09031
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5605
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall crash on the B5605 in Wrexham, 14 March 1994
At the same spotRef 1994600D08006
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 4 October 1979
At the same spotRef 1979600D08109
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5605 in Wrexham, 24 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990600D08127
Serious
Lorry crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 8 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982600D08064
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5426 in Wrexham, 23 June 2003
45 m awayRef 2003600WR7037
Fatal
Zastava Yugo crash on the B5605 in Wrexham, 1 April 2002
85 m awayRef 2002600WR7019
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland Roadrunner
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 1993600D09031 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 1993.