A541 crash in Flintshire on 26 May 1996 at 21:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A541 in Flintshire at 21:15 on Sunday 26 May 1996. The 41-year-old male driver and a 43-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1996
- Sunday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20252, longitude -3.23985, in the CH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996600FL8027
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 541
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 May 2014.
Serious
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 17 May 2014
4 m awayRef 201460R073349
Fatal
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 6 June 1997
10 m awayRef 1997600FL8025
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 11 August 2009
10 m awayRef 2009609018865
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 6 February 2025
10 m awayRef 202560C017679
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 27 January 1993
22 m awayRef 1993600C09008
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 11 January 1991
22 m awayRef 1991600C10014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1996600FL8027 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 1996.