Serious unclassified road crash in Flintshire CH8 on 6 December 2014 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire at 17:15 on Saturday 6 December 2014. The 29-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25221, longitude -3.21353, in the CH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201460R191237
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1993.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 2 May 1993
36 m awayRef 1993600C09052
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 9 September 2004
152 m awayRef 2004600FL9133
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 26 October 1981
175 m awayRef 1981600C01221
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 4 January 2014
308 m awayRef 201460R001874
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 2 October 1979
340 m awayRef 1979600C01192
Serious
Lorry crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 5 February 1993
353 m awayRef 1993600C09013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201460R191237 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 2014.