A541 crash in Flintshire on 21 October 2003 at 21:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A541 in Flintshire at 21:15 on Tuesday 21 October 2003. The 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2003
- Tuesday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14559, longitude -3.0953, 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
- 2003600FL1102
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 1 March 2002
At the same spotRef 2002600FL1018
Serious
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 21 January 1981
40 m awayRef 1981600C06007
Slight
Lorry crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 6 January 1981
40 m awayRef 1981600C06002
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 16 December 2004
54 m awayRef 2004600FL2093
Serious
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 4 August 2009
54 m awayRef 2009609018748
Serious
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 8 January 1997
54 m awayRef 1997600FL4005
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2003600FL1102 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 2003.