A55 crash in Flintshire on 6 October 2012 at 13:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A55 in Flintshire at 13:15 on Saturday 6 October 2012. The 24-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2012
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.24956, longitude -3.20137, in the CH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201260N166328
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 55
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 1999.
Slight
Triumph Dolomite crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 7 January 1999
28 m awayRef 1999600FL9005
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 2 June 2011
32 m awayRef 201160M089171
Slight
Scania crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 16 March 2006
36 m awayRef 2006600FL8012
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 14 March 1990
45 m awayRef 1990600C01054
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 24 August 1998
50 m awayRef 1998600FL9126
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 31 March 2001
58 m awayRef 2001600FL9052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, 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 201260N166328 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 2012.