B5373 crash in Flintshire on 2 March 2011 at 18:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B5373 in Flintshire at 18:00 on Wednesday 2 March 2011. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2011
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.11286, longitude -3.02514, in the LL12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hope, Flintshire, LL12 9NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201160M034220
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5373
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 April 1988.
Fatal
Car crash on the B5373 in Flintshire, 6 April 1988
22 m awayRef 1988600C06032
Slight
Car crash on the B5373 in Flintshire, 6 December 2008
32 m awayRef 2008608231121
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5373 in Flintshire, 4 January 2003
45 m awayRef 2003600FL4001
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the B5373 in Flintshire, 27 February 1998
100 m awayRef 1998600FL4009
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5373 in Flintshire, 24 October 1994
136 m awayRef 1994600C06079
Slight
Car crash on the B5373 in Flintshire, 23 January 1981
150 m awayRef 1981600C06009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 201160M034220 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 2011.