A55 crash in Flintshire on 25 January 2016 at 10:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A55 in Flintshire at 10:45 on Monday 25 January 2016. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1, the 29-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a 2-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2016
- Monday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.25413, longitude -3.2091, in the CH8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201660U011930
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 55
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 1979.
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 2 October 1979
33 m awayRef 1979600C01192
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 4 January 2014
61 m awayRef 201460R001874
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 11 February 1987
108 m awayRef 1987600C01020
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 3 June 1994
108 m awayRef 1994600C09053
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 22 August 1988
108 m awayRef 1988600C01170
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 18 August 1990
118 m awayRef 1990600C01162
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201660U011930 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 2016.