Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL14 on 6 February 1999 at 14:50 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 14:50 on Saturday 6 February 1999. The 12-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 1999
- Saturday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03643, longitude -3.0378, in the LL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhostyllen.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999600WR2011
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 1999.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 25 September 1999
10 m awayRef 1999600WR2090
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 24 June 1988
233 m awayRef 1988600D05465
Serious
Van crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 2 April 1982
290 m awayRef 1982600D06037
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 10 December 1987
403 m awayRef 1987600D05852
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 1 November 1988
403 m awayRef 1988600D05801
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 4 February 2002
434 m awayRef 2002600WR2007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1999600WR2011 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 1999.