A5026 crash in Flintshire on 20 January 2015 at 21:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A5026 in Flintshire at 21:30 on Tuesday 20 January 2015. The 20-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2015
- Tuesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27464, longitude -3.22635, in the CH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holywell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holywell Central, Flintshire, CH8 7TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S009410
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5026
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 21 April 1998
11 m awayRef 1998600FL9042
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 8 June 1991
19 m awayRef 1991600C01103
Slight
Peugeot 605 crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 3 February 1993
19 m awayRef 1993600C01006
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 9 August 2004
30 m awayRef 2004600FL9115
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 21 April 2010
49 m awayRef 201060L068308
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 6 March 1999
59 m awayRef 1999600FL9034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201560S009410 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 2015.