Serious B5445 crash in Wrexham on 15 November 2012 at 17:22 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the B5445 in Wrexham at 17:22 on Thursday 15 November 2012. The 24-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 17:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.11609, longitude -2.93886, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rossett.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201260N189376
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5445
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1999.
Slight
New Holland crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 6 April 1999
14 m awayRef 1999600WR3038
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 7 March 2003
14 m awayRef 2003600WR3031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 10 February 2022
36 m awayRef 202260B019418
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 9 April 1985
50 m awayRef 1985600D05218
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Wrexham, 2 December 1979
50 m awayRef 1979600D07233
Slight
Bus crash on the B5445 in Wrexham, 5 October 2010
80 m awayRef 201060L185591
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, 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 201260N189376 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 2012.