A55 crash in Denbighshire on 4 June 2003 at 14:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A55 in Denbighshire at 14:15 on Wednesday 4 June 2003. The 33-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 2003
- Wednesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26592, longitude -3.50246, in the LL18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, LL18 5WH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003600DE4070
- 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
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 24 June 1997
22 m awayRef 1997600DE4061
Serious
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 4 November 1986
22 m awayRef 1986600C04168
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 22 September 1998
22 m awayRef 1998600DE4112
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 5 May 2007
22 m awayRef 2007600DE4048
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 17 May 1988
22 m awayRef 1988600C04073
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 2 June 1987
22 m awayRef 1987600C04080
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2003600DE4070 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 2003.