B5126 crash in Flintshire on 16 December 2001 at 23:18 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara crashed on the B5126 in Flintshire at 23:18 on Sunday 16 December 2001. The 20-year-old male driver and a 14-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2001
- Sunday, 23:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20985, longitude -3.08616, in the CH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001600FL5140
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5126
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2005.
Slight
Leyland crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 16 November 2005
At the same spotRef 2005600FL5143
Slight
Car crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 19 January 2006
10 m awayRef 2006600FL5008
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 23 January 2003
40 m awayRef 2003600FL5012
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 2 December 2001
41 m awayRef 2001600FL5139
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 1 March 2000
41 m awayRef 2000600FL5025
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 23 October 2002
51 m awayRef 2002600FL5131
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2001600FL5140 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.