Serious B5429 crash in Denbighshire on 18 December 2017 at 12:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire at 12:30 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and goods vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18092, longitude -3.33498, in the LL16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201760V189747
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5429
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1988.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 9 June 1988
19 m awayRef 1988600D01087
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 18 May 1985
19 m awayRef 1985600D01053
Serious
Car crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 8 March 1981
102 m awayRef 1981600D01026
Slight
Foden crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 21 May 1996
121 m awayRef 1996600DE5033
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B5429 in Denbighshire, 11 April 2010
210 m awayRef 201060L070270
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 21 May 1979
216 m awayRef 1979600D01070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201760V189747 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.