Serious B5102 crash in Wrexham on 10 December 2016 at 00:53 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B5102 in Wrexham at 00:53 on Saturday 10 December 2016. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 23-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 00:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.09679, longitude -3.01025, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llay.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201660U185308
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5102
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5102 in Wrexham, 24 April 2005
30 m awayRef 2005600WR3044
Slight
Car crash on the B5102 in Wrexham, 17 June 2008
30 m awayRef 2008608114143
Slight
Car crash on the B5102 in Wrexham, 5 September 2016
35 m awayRef 201660U135061
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5102 in Wrexham, 7 July 1983
49 m awayRef 1983600D07129
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5102 in Wrexham, 1 May 2010
109 m awayRef 201060L081760
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the B5102 in Wrexham, 18 July 2007
128 m awayRef 2007600WR3049
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 201660U185308 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.