B5118 crash in Denbighshire on 26 June 2016 at 16:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5118 in Denbighshire at 16:50 on Sunday 26 June 2016. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2016
- Sunday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32239, longitude -3.49219, in the LL18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhyl. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rhyl West, Denbighshire, LL18 1BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201660U094000
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2009.
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 15 May 2009
7 m awayRef 2009609088164
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A548 in Denbighshire, 12 March 2001
9 m awayRef 2001600DE2048
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 8 August 1997
14 m awayRef 1997600DE2122
Slight
Car crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 1 August 2006
14 m awayRef 2006600DE2119
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A547 in Denbighshire, 13 July 1996
14 m awayRef 1996600DE2109
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 17 July 2005
25 m awayRef 2005600DE2112
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), 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 201660U094000 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 2016.