Serious B5444 crash in Flintshire on 7 December 2013 at 10:53 involving a car
A car hit eleven pedestrians on the B5444 in Flintshire at 10:53 on Saturday 7 December 2013. There were twelve casualties: two people were seriously injured and ten were slightly injured. Eleven of them were pedestrians.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2013
- Saturday, 10:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 12
- 2 seriously injured, 10 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16744, longitude -3.14223, in the CH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mold East, Flintshire, CH7 1AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201360P199879
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5444
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 23 September 1997
At the same spotRef 1997600FL1080
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 30 March 1997
At the same spotRef 1997600FL1032
Slight
Car crash on the B5444 in Flintshire, 26 August 2008
14 m awayRef 2008608163497
Slight
Car crash on the B5444 in Flintshire, 5 March 2002
14 m awayRef 2002600FL1022
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the B5444 in Flintshire, 10 January 2010
14 m awayRef 201060L005655
Serious
Car crash on the B5444 in Flintshire, 25 November 2014
22 m awayRef 201460R185625
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
Casualties (12)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 4: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 5: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 6: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 7: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 8: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 9: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 10: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 11: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
Casualty 12: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
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 201360P199879 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 2013.