Fatal A548 crash in Flintshire on 9 November 1998 at 17:00 involving a Citroen C15
A Citroen C15 hit a pedestrian on the A548 in Flintshire at 17:00 on Monday 9 November 1998. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 9 Nov 1998
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C15
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3403, longitude -3.3664, in the LL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600FL9163
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 548
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2004.
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A548 in Flintshire, 31 May 2004
10 m awayRef 2004600FL9076
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A548 in Flintshire, 29 August 1999
10 m awayRef 1999600FL9126
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on the A548 in Flintshire, 27 June 2025
20 m awayRef 202560C095554
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A548 in Flintshire, 27 August 1997
20 m awayRef 1997600FL9074
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A548 in Flintshire, 14 July 1995
36 m awayRef 1995600C12572
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 3 November 1988
36 m awayRef 1988600C02249
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C15
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C15)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1998600FL9163 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 1998.