Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 17 October 2017 at 17:10 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 17:10 on Tuesday 17 October 2017. The 22-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and the 30-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2017
- Tuesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04703, longitude -2.91187, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pentre Maelor.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V158070
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 1998.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 18 May 1998
13 m awayRef 1998600WR3057
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 5 March 2002
20 m awayRef 2002600WR3035
Slight
ERF crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 13 September 2001
20 m awayRef 2001600WR3114
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 1 June 1998
20 m awayRef 1998600WR3067
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 31 July 2003
22 m awayRef 2003600WR3093
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 27 May 1997
27 m awayRef 1997600WR3066
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 201760V158070 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 2017.