A542 crash in Denbighshire on 29 August 1995 at 12:50 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro crashed on the A542 in Denbighshire at 12:50 on Tuesday 29 August 1995. The 47-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 1995
- Tuesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04384, longitude -3.20665, in the LL11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995600D02132
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 542
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1984.
Slight
Scooter crash on the A542 in Denbighshire, 30 September 1984
100 m awayRef 1984600D02117
Serious
Kawasaki EX 400 crash on the A542 in Denbighshire, 16 June 2025
222 m awayRef 202560C089178
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A542 in Denbighshire, 1 October 2000
275 m awayRef 2000600DE6071
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A542 in Denbighshire, 24 October 2009
373 m awayRef 2009609203002
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A542 in Denbighshire, 12 November 2007
500 m awayRef 2007600DE8043
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A542 in Denbighshire, 4 July 1998
582 m awayRef 1998600DE6059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
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 1995600D02132 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 1995.