Serious unclassified road crash in Denbighshire LL18 on 28 December 1998 at 13:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire at 13:55 on Monday 28 December 1998. The 37-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1998
- Monday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30013, longitude -3.46341, in the LL18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600DE4154
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 26 December 2002
10 m awayRef 2002600DE2217
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 28 March 2001
10 m awayRef 2001600DE4035
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 21 October 2009
14 m awayRef 2009609200563
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 1 March 2001
22 m awayRef 2001600DE4021
Slight
Suzuki GSXS crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 16 December 2025
57 m awayRef 202560C194772
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A525 in Denbighshire, 17 March 1991
76 m awayRef 1991600C04046
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1998600DE4154 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 1998.