A528 crash in Wrexham on 17 December 2000 at 12:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Rover Montego were involved in a crash on the A528 in Wrexham at 12:45 on Sunday 17 December 2000. The 69-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier and the 61-year-old female driver of the Rover Montego were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Rover Montego
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96554, longitude -2.935, in the LL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000600WR6058
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 528
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2005.
Slight
Toyota crash on the A528 in Wrexham, 13 July 2005
32 m awayRef 2005600WR6043
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A528 in Wrexham, 19 April 2003
45 m awayRef 2003600WR6013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 22 February 1997
139 m awayRef 1997600WR6013
Slight
Lorry crash on the A528 in Wrexham, 19 November 2025
153 m awayRef 202560C179571
Slight
Lorry crash on the A528 in Wrexham, 15 March 1981
156 m awayRef 1981600D10013
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A528 in Wrexham, 17 March 2001
179 m awayRef 2001600WR7024
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover Montego)
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 2000600WR6058 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.