B5125 crash in Flintshire on 16 April 2008 at 21:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5125 in Flintshire at 21:15 on Wednesday 16 April 2008. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 2, a 16-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 16-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2008
- Wednesday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20303, longitude -3.10485, in the CH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608070740
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5125
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B5125 in Flintshire, 23 April 1988
At the same spotRef 1988600C07155
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5125 in Flintshire, 1 June 2003
61 m awayRef 2003600FL8035
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5125 in Flintshire, 8 June 2003
132 m awayRef 2003600FL8039
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on the B5125 in Flintshire, 24 May 2003
194 m awayRef 2003600FL7037
Slight
Car crash on the B5125 in Flintshire, 29 October 1985
200 m awayRef 1985600C07324
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5125 in Flintshire, 14 December 1987
200 m awayRef 1987600C07429
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2008608070740 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 2008.