A55 crash in Flintshire on 15 September 2007 at 17:05 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A55 in Flintshire at 17:05 on Saturday 15 September 2007. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2007
- Saturday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19932, longitude -3.09802, in the CH7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northop, Flintshire, CH7 6HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007600FL8046
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 55
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 31 December 2001
14 m awayRef 2001600FL8063
Fatal
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 7 February 2014
17 m awayRef 201460R018144
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 14 September 1999
22 m awayRef 1999600FL7085
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 17 October 1996
22 m awayRef 1996600FL8057
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 1 October 2002
22 m awayRef 2002600FL7087
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 14 March 2012
28 m awayRef 201260N040803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2007600FL8046 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.