Serious A547 crash in Denbighshire on 21 July 2008 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A547 in Denbighshire at 16:00 on Monday 21 July 2008. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jul 2008
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3165, longitude -3.40996, in the LL19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Meliden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prestatyn Meliden, Denbighshire, LL19 8HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608137063
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 547
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 21 September 2004
10 m awayRef 2004600DE1086
Slight
Car crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 9 December 2019
11 m awayRef 201960X177277
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 10 January 2002
14 m awayRef 2002600DE1003
Slight
Car crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 18 January 2000
22 m awayRef 2000600DE1001
Slight
Car crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 5 July 2016
31 m awayRef 201660U098383
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 22 December 2004
32 m awayRef 2004600DE1111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 75 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2008608137063 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Denbighshire road accident statistics for 2008.