A5026 crash in Flintshire on 21 July 2017 at 18:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5026 in Flintshire at 18:40 on Friday 21 July 2017. The 48-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2017
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27267, longitude -3.22546, in the CH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holywell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holywell Central, Flintshire, CH8 7TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V109841
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5026
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 1999.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 14 April 1999
25 m awayRef 1999600FL9053
Serious
Lexmoto ZSX crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 30 December 2023
33 m awayRef 202360A204107
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 22 December 1985
35 m awayRef 1985600C01260
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 11 August 1984
35 m awayRef 1984600C01160
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5026 in Flintshire, 20 February 1995
35 m awayRef 1995600C01010
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Flintshire, 23 August 1985
35 m awayRef 1985600C01178
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201760V109841 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.