Serious A5152 crash in Wrexham on 12 June 2016 at 17:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5152 in Wrexham at 17:10 on Sunday 12 June 2016. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were seriously injured and a 26-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 2016
- Sunday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02761, longitude -3.02885, in the LL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhostyllen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Esclusham, Wrexham, LL14 4ED area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201660U086291
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5152
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5152 in Wrexham, 17 September 2000
6 m awayRef 2000600WR2079
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A5152 in Wrexham, 19 July 2001
6 m awayRef 2001600WR2057
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A5152 in Wrexham, 18 June 1998
6 m awayRef 1998600WR2049
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A5152 in Wrexham, 8 August 2000
6 m awayRef 2000600WR2064
Slight
Car crash on the A5152 in Wrexham, 5 August 2013
6 m awayRef 201360P127810
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A5152 in Wrexham, 27 August 2010
6 m awayRef 201060L159632
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, 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 201660U086291 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 2016.