A55 crash in Denbighshire on 3 August 2001 at 19:25 involving a Honda CG125 motorcycle
A Honda CG125 motorcycle crashed on the A55 in Denbighshire at 19:25 on Friday 3 August 2001. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2001
- Friday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CG125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27265, longitude -3.36953, in the LL17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001600DE4072
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 55
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1999.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 5 October 1999
At the same spotRef 1999600DE4125
Serious
Lorry crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 19 April 2021
38 m awayRef 202160Z053540
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 28 May 2006
57 m awayRef 2006600DE4058
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 28 November 2007
58 m awayRef 2007600DE4144
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 14 September 1982
58 m awayRef 1982600C04120
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 5 May 1989
58 m awayRef 1989600C04072
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CG125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CG125)
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 2001600DE4072 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 2001.