A525 crash in Denbighshire on 21 November 1997 at 18:15 involving a Skoda Felicia
A Skoda Felicia crashed on the A525 in Denbighshire at 18:15 on Friday 21 November 1997. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1997
- Friday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Felicia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27324, longitude -3.45709, in the LL18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997600DE4130
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 525
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2002.
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 1 August 2002
20 m awayRef 2002600DE4071
Slight
Car crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 8 April 2002
22 m awayRef 2002600DE4030
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 17 May 2010
30 m awayRef 201060L085855
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 23 August 2025
35 m awayRef 202560C131720
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 23 January 2001
40 m awayRef 2001600DE4008
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 5 July 2003
42 m awayRef 2003600DE4084
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Felicia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Felicia)
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 1997600DE4130 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.