Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 1 December 2008 at 14:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 14:35 on Monday 1 December 2008. An 82-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2008
- Monday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03956, longitude -2.98701, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitegate, Wrexham, LL13 8PU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608227857
- 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
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2011.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 1 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201160M200172
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Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 17 December 2001
10 m awayRef 2001600WR1333
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 5 December 2017
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 9 January 1985
20 m awayRef 1985600D05561
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 June 1983
20 m awayRef 1983600D05147
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 4 June 1991
20 m awayRef 1991600D05427
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 82, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2008608227857 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.