B5445 crash in Wrexham on 1 December 2000 at 16:40 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A car and a Vauxhall Astravan were involved in a crash on the B5445 in Wrexham at 16:40 on Friday 1 December 2000. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astravan was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2000
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astravan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07897, longitude -2.98269, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gresford.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000600WR3164
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5445
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, no street lighting
- 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 17 January 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 17 January 2002
At the same spotRef 2002600WR3010
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Nissan Micra crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 8 September 2000
At the same spotRef 2000600WR3118
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 27 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997600WR3142
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Citroen BX crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 13 April 1999
At the same spotRef 1999600WR3037
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Audi A3 crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 29 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005600WR2115
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Ford Escort crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 29 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000600WR3163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astravan)
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 2000600WR3164 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 2000.