Unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 5 December 2017 at 17:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 17:50 on Tuesday 5 December 2017. A 78-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03969, longitude -2.98688, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitegate, Wrexham, LL13 8PU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V183547
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 28 July 2015
10 m awayRef 201560S113217
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 17 December 2001
11 m awayRef 2001600WR1333
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 1 December 2008
13 m awayRef 2008608227857
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 1 December 2011
13 m awayRef 201160M200172
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 9 January 1985
29 m awayRef 1985600D05561
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 June 1983
29 m awayRef 1983600D05147
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201760V183547 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.