Serious B4401 crash in Denbighshire on 25 January 2003 at 09:15 involving a Volvo 440
A lorry and a Volvo 440 were involved in a crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire at 09:15 on Saturday 25 January 2003. The 24-year-old male driver of the Volvo 440 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jan 2003
- Saturday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Volvo 440
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96421, longitude -3.40026, in the LL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003600DE7004
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4401
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 15 May 1997
32 m awayRef 1997600DE7017
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 13 March 1982
54 m awayRef 1982600D11020
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 23 January 1990
130 m awayRef 1990600D11016
Serious
Seat Toledo crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 25 January 2001
205 m awayRef 2001600DE7003
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 19 January 2002
305 m awayRef 2002600DE7005
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4401 in Denbighshire, 28 August 1992
333 m awayRef 1992600D11079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Volvo 440
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 440)
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 2003600DE7004 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.