A550 crash in Flintshire on 30 September 2001 at 17:02 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A550 in Flintshire at 17:02 on Sunday 30 September 2001. A 48-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 106 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2001
- Sunday, 17:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10892, longitude -3.03386, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hope. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hope, Flintshire, LL12 9NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001600FL4040
- 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
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- 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 19 September 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 19 September 2003
At the same spotRef 2003600FL4057
Serious
Lorry crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 11 November 1986
41 m awayRef 1986600C06085
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 18 September 1985
41 m awayRef 1985600C06066
Slight
Car crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 17 March 1985
41 m awayRef 1985600C06021
Slight
Car crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 7 April 1981
41 m awayRef 1981600C06042
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A550 in Flintshire, 21 October 1992
41 m awayRef 1992600C06100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2001600FL4040 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 2001.