A55 crash in Flintshire on 24 May 1997 at 11:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A55 in Flintshire at 11:05 on Saturday 24 May 1997. The 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1997
- Saturday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19742, longitude -3.0909, 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
- 1997600FL8022
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 July 2013.
Serious
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 26 July 2013
20 m awayRef 201360P120811
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 18 August 1995
45 m awayRef 1995600C09086
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 26 August 1981
63 m awayRef 1981600C07246
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 25 November 2024
72 m awayRef 202460Q178272
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 9 July 1998
73 m awayRef 1998600FL8029
Serious
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 4 March 2008
81 m awayRef 2008600FL8014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1997600FL8022 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 1997.