A541 crash in Flintshire on 7 May 2002 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A541 in Flintshire at 18:30 on Tuesday 7 May 2002. The 47-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2002
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23058, longitude -3.28863, 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
- 2002600FL8024
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 541
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 March 1994.
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 3 March 1994
36 m awayRef 1994600C09025
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 1 April 1990
36 m awayRef 1990600C01061
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 16 February 2019
47 m awayRef 201960X022053
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 2 January 1992
85 m awayRef 1992600C01001
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 6 January 1983
124 m awayRef 1983600C01002
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 30 June 1984
132 m awayRef 1984600C01122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 918 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 2002600FL8024 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 2002.