Serious A5 crash in Wrexham on 30 March 2015 at 12:35 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A5 in Wrexham at 12:35 on Monday 30 March 2015. A 42-year-old female passenger in the car was seriously injured and an 18-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Mar 2015
- Monday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93582, longitude -3.04363, in the LL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S044116
- Council area
- Wrexham
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2018.
Slight
Van crash on the A5 in Wrexham, 31 August 2018
7 m awayRef 201860W124066
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5 in Wrexham, 3 July 1998
68 m awayRef 1998600WR8022
Serious
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A5 in Wrexham, 16 January 2023
101 m awayRef 202360A007140
Fatal
MG MGF crash on the A5 in Wrexham, 14 August 2004
102 m awayRef 2004600WR8020
Slight
HGV crash on the A5 in Wrexham, 22 September 2011
123 m awayRef 201160M159096
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A5 in Wrexham, 18 October 1998
152 m awayRef 1998600WR8026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 201560S044116 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wrexham road accident statistics for 2015.