Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL11 on 17 May 2008 at 07:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 07:55 on Saturday 17 May 2008. The 31-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 17 May 2008
- Saturday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04659, longitude -3.01611, in the LL11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brynyffynnon, Wrexham, LL11 3BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608091966
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1993.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 15 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993600D05331
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 12 March 2006
54 m awayRef 2006600WR1089
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 24 March 2006
54 m awayRef 2006600WR1109
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 7 June 2009
54 m awayRef 2009609104731
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 7 April 1993
92 m awayRef 1993600D05086
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 6 October 2006
102 m awayRef 2006600WR1318
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008608091966 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wrexham road accident statistics for 2008.