Fatal A5151 crash in Denbighshire on 16 January 2005 at 19:20 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A5151 in Denbighshire at 19:20 on Sunday 16 January 2005. The 24-year-old male driver was killed and a 23-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 16 Jan 2005
- Sunday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.29783, longitude -3.4227, in the LL18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005600DE4007
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5151
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2009.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 24 October 2009
85 m awayRef 2009609203141
Slight
Car crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 8 February 2013
92 m awayRef 201360P020191
Serious
Car crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 11 November 2017
96 m awayRef 201760V171320
Slight
Car crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 14 November 1986
144 m awayRef 1986600C02221
Serious
Car crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 30 September 1987
144 m awayRef 1987600C04150
Fatal
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5151 in Denbighshire, 31 May 2000
150 m awayRef 2000600DE4058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2005600DE4007 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 2005.