B5118 crash in Denbighshire on 15 August 1997 at 15:25 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B5118 in Denbighshire at 15:25 on Friday 15 August 1997. A 93-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 1997
- Friday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32577, longitude -3.48381, in the LL18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhyl.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997600DE2125
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 21 August 2012
10 m awayRef 201260N138989
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 27 July 2018
14 m awayRef 201860W104257
Serious
Car crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 16 February 2019
15 m awayRef 201960X022276
Slight
Car crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 7 April 1985
32 m awayRef 1985600C03070
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 21 March 1980
32 m awayRef 1980600C03059
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 22 May 2004
32 m awayRef 2004600DE2099
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 93, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1997600DE2125 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 1997.