A55 crash in Flintshire on 17 April 2017 at 17:52 involving a car
A car crashed on the A55 in Flintshire at 17:52 on Monday 17 April 2017. A 10-year-old male passenger and a 12-year-old female passenger 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
- 17 Apr 2017
- Monday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16585, longitude -3.03223, in the CH5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pen-y-ffordd, Flintshire, CH5 3LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V054299
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a fatal crash on 26 February 2022.
Fatal
Audi TT crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 26 February 2022
16 m awayRef 202260B027422
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 3 June 2025
59 m awayRef 202560C081719
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 22 March 2007
76 m awayRef 2007600FL3051
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 3 October 2021
78 m awayRef 202160Z145544
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 22 February 2010
84 m awayRef 201060L030867
Serious
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 23 January 2001
93 m awayRef 2001600FL2016
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201760V054299 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 2017.