Serious B5105 crash in Denbighshire on 17 October 2015 at 12:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire at 12:45 on Saturday 17 October 2015. The 43-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- 17 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0523, longitude -3.43372, in the LL21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201560S159248
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5105
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 1996.
Slight
Honda crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire, 11 August 1996
4 m awayRef 1996600DE6049
Serious
Aprilia crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire, 22 July 2001
4 m awayRef 2001600DE6055
Serious
Honda CBR1000F crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire, 13 September 1998
4 m awayRef 1998600DE6081
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire, 22 August 1997
4 m awayRef 1997600DE6050
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1100 crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire, 30 August 1998
6 m awayRef 1998600DE6073
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B5105 in Denbighshire, 26 May 2001
13 m awayRef 2001600DE6041
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 201560S159248 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.