A5 crash in Denbighshire on 20 January 1994 at 05:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A5 in Denbighshire at 05:25 on Thursday 20 January 1994. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1994
- Thursday, 05:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97811, longitude -3.21673, in the LL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994600D03002
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1994.
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 11 April 1994
At the same spotRef 1994600D03011
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 8 January 1986
100 m awayRef 1986600D03001
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 31 January 2008
151 m awayRef 2008600DE7003
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 28 July 2025
161 m awayRef 202560C115191
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 12 June 2023
194 m awayRef 202360A090536
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 31 August 1994
200 m awayRef 1994600D03027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1994600D03002 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 1994.