Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious A55 crash in Flintshire on 16 March 1995 at 10:57 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry

An Iveco-Ford lorry hit a pedestrian on the A55 in Flintshire at 10:57 on Thursday 16 March 1995. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Mar 1995
Thursday, 10:57
Vehicles
1
Iveco-Ford
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2621, longitude -3.22478, in the CH8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1995600C09020
Council area
Flintshire
Police force
North Wales

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
55
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry
Special conditions at the site
Roadworks
Carriageway hazards
Roadworks

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Iveco-Ford)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing

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 1995600C09020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Flintshire road accident statistics for 1995.