Unclassified road crash in Denbighshire LL18 on 21 June 2012 at 19:20 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire at 19:20 on Thursday 21 June 2012. The 28-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2012
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30849, longitude -3.41075, in the LL18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Meliden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dyserth, Denbighshire, LL18 6LW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201260N100808
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2006.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 29 December 2006
40 m awayRef 2006600DE4114
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 29 September 1996
100 m awayRef 1996600DE4098
Fatal
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 24 June 2006
130 m awayRef 2006600DE4051
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 11 March 2012
155 m awayRef 201260N039157
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 13 November 2017
171 m awayRef 201760V172191
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 15 June 1993
200 m awayRef 1993600C04085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201260N100808 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 2012.