Serious A543 crash in Denbighshire on 17 July 2007 at 16:15 involving a motorcycle
Two motorcycles were involved in a crash on the A543 in Denbighshire at 16:15 on Tuesday 17 July 2007. The 29-year-old female rider of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Jul 2007
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19806, longitude -3.40637, in the LL16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Denbigh Lower, Denbighshire, LL16 5TH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007600DE5040
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 543
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A543 in Denbighshire, 16 June 2006
22 m awayRef 2006600DE5040
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A543 in Denbighshire, 9 August 2002
22 m awayRef 2002600DE5068
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A543 in Denbighshire, 30 December 2001
32 m awayRef 2001600DE5097
Serious
Car crash on the A543 in Denbighshire, 28 January 1997
41 m awayRef 1997600DE5010
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on the A543 in Denbighshire, 30 November 2004
45 m awayRef 2004600DE6085
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A543 in Denbighshire, 2 October 2002
45 m awayRef 2002600DE5085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2007600DE5040 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 2007.