A548 crash in Denbighshire on 7 April 1999 at 10:58 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A548 in Denbighshire at 10:58 on Wednesday 7 April 1999. The 26-year-old female driver of the car 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
- 7 Apr 1999
- Wednesday, 10:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31411, longitude -3.50265, in the LL18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhyl.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999600DE2046
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 548
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1996.
Slight
Bedford crash on the A541 in Denbighshire, 11 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996600DE2176
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A548 in Denbighshire, 18 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001600DE2146
Serious
Subaru Subaru crash on the A548 in Denbighshire, 12 December 1998
22 m awayRef 1998600DE2167
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A548 in Denbighshire, 11 July 1999
30 m awayRef 1999600DE2108
Serious
Benelli BN crash on the A548 in Denbighshire, 19 July 2025
36 m awayRef 202560C109515
Serious
Car crash on the A548 in Denbighshire, 24 July 1988
41 m awayRef 1988600C03170
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, 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 1999600DE2046 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 1999.