A541 crash in Flintshire on 23 December 2012 at 19:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A541 in Flintshire at 19:00 on Sunday 23 December 2012. The 52-year-old male driver of vehicle 2, a 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 19-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2341, longitude -3.30432, in the CH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201260N210581
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 541
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 December 2002.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 22 December 2002
20 m awayRef 2002600FL8062
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 1 May 2003
20 m awayRef 2003600FL8031
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 12 February 2008
22 m awayRef 2008600FL8010
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 4 February 1992
45 m awayRef 1992600C01023
Slight
Car crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 21 November 1988
45 m awayRef 1988600C01230
Slight
Bedford crash on the A541 in Flintshire, 16 July 1991
45 m awayRef 1991600C01137
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201260N210581 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.