Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL11 on 6 December 2016 at 19:02 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 19:02 on Tuesday 6 December 2016. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0736, longitude -3.02617, in the LL11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gwersyllt. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gwersyllt South, Wrexham, LL11 4AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201660U183771
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 23 January 2018
2 m awayRef 201860W008436
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 March 2022
47 m awayRef 202260B029530
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 23 February 1989
55 m awayRef 1989600D05145
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 24 January 1980
56 m awayRef 1980600D07017
Serious
Honda NSR125R crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 19 July 1994
56 m awayRef 1994600D07090
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 July 1979
56 m awayRef 1979600D07126
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South 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
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc to 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 201660U183771 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.