A550 crash in Flintshire on 22 December 2000 at 19:29 involving a Nissan Micra
A motorcycle and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A550 in Flintshire at 19:29 on Friday 22 December 2000. The 45-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 19:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19204, longitude -3.02688, in the CH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hawarden.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000600FL3175
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 550
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 14 October 2004
At the same spotRef 2004600FL3145
Slight
Bedford crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 12 March 1993
10 m awayRef 1993600C11018
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 16 June 1992
10 m awayRef 1992600C09049
Slight
Car crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 7 July 1989
10 m awayRef 1989600C09069
Slight
Lorry crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 1 August 1987
10 m awayRef 1987600C09045
Slight
Car crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 9 December 1984
10 m awayRef 1984600C09097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2000600FL3175 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 2000.