Serious A5 crash in Denbighshire on 7 February 2015 at 12:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A5 in Denbighshire at 12:55 on Saturday 7 February 2015. The 22-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Feb 2015
- Saturday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98127, longitude -3.21765, in the LL20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S018080
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2023.
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 2 September 2023
13 m awayRef 202360A141214
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 25 May 2025
14 m awayRef 202560C075875
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 30 May 2022
18 m awayRef 202260B077855
Slight
HGV crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 29 October 2011
35 m awayRef 201160M181049
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 16 January 2022
38 m awayRef 202260B008855
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Denbighshire, 17 May 2014
49 m awayRef 201460R073047
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- 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
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 201560S018080 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Denbighshire road accident statistics for 2015.