Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 1 May 1998 at 20:30 involving an Opel Kadett
An Opel Kadett hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 20:30 on Friday 1 May 1998. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 1998
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Opel Kadett
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04069, longitude -3.00401, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600WR1127
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Opel Kadett
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Opel Kadett)
- 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 1998600WR1127 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wrexham road accident statistics for 1998.