A494 crash in Denbighshire on 29 April 2017 at 10:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A494 in Denbighshire at 10:50 on Saturday 29 April 2017. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.11402, longitude -3.30456, in the LL15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ruthin. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V060635
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 494
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 November 2019.
Serious
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 15 November 2019
4 m awayRef 201960X165943
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 18 July 2019
9 m awayRef 201960X101275
Slight
MG ZT crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 22 April 2007
12 m awayRef 2007600DE6019
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 26 March 2014
26 m awayRef 201460R044518
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 4 October 1985
30 m awayRef 1985600D02123
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Denbighshire, 24 September 2016
32 m awayRef 201660U146056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201760V060635 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 2017.