A541 crash in Flintshire on 26 October 2007 at 11:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A541 in Flintshire at 11:30 on Friday 26 October 2007. The 53-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2007
- Friday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16507, longitude -3.12631, in the CH7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mold: Broncoed, Flintshire, CH7 1HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007600FL1080
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 541
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 1995.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 4 July 1995
At the same spotRef 1995600C10071
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 9 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982600C05158
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 7 July 1990
At the same spotRef 1990600C10111
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 3 July 1994
At the same spotRef 1994600C10053
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 14 January 1999
20 m awayRef 1999600FL1012
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 17 July 2010
22 m awayRef 201060L130158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
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 2007600FL1080 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 2007.