B5069 crash in Wrexham on 17 December 1998 at 08:50 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the B5069 in Wrexham at 08:50 on Thursday 17 December 1998. A 15-year-old female passenger, a 12-year-old female passenger and a 14-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97717, longitude -2.92226, in the LL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998600WR6063
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5069
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5069 in Wrexham, 2 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201060L203850
Slight
Bedford crash on the B5069 in Wrexham, 16 June 1991
30 m awayRef 1991600D10025
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 29 March 2025
194 m awayRef 202560C043772
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5069 in Wrexham, 4 April 1982
197 m awayRef 1982600D10010
Serious
Car crash on the B5069 in Wrexham, 2 September 1985
197 m awayRef 1985600D10040
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5069 in Wrexham, 27 April 1998
200 m awayRef 1998600WR6024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1998600WR6063 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.