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A550 crash in Flintshire on 14 August 2007 at 13:30 involving a BMW 3 Series

A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A550 in Flintshire at 13:30 on Tuesday 14 August 2007. A 25-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
14 Aug 2007
Tuesday, 13:30
Vehicles
1
BMW 3 Series
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20448, longitude -3.02359, in the CH5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queensferry and Sealand, Flintshire, CH5 1TP area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2007600FL6038
Council area
Flintshire
Police force
North Wales
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
550
Road type
Slip road
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Urban

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
550

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
2%
Estimated chance it was slight
98%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Position at junction
    Entering from slip road
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    1,896 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)

    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 2007600FL6038 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.