Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL11 on 27 December 2008 at 20:00 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 20:00 on Saturday 27 December 2008. The 67-year-old female driver of the car and a 60-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07264, longitude -3.01911, in the LL11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gwersyllt. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gwersyllt South, Wrexham, LL11 4AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008608245467
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Wrexham, 28 February 2011
20 m awayRef 201160M034472
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Wrexham, 3 December 2016
22 m awayRef 201660U182244
Serious
Car crash on the A541 in Wrexham, 10 October 1985
22 m awayRef 1985600D05564
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Wrexham, 28 November 1981
22 m awayRef 1981600D07219
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 24 May 1983
22 m awayRef 1983600D07104
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A541 in Wrexham, 28 October 1986
22 m awayRef 1986600D05723
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2008608245467 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.