A550 crash in Flintshire on 14 June 2018 at 13:44 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A550 in Flintshire at 13:44 on Thursday 14 June 2018. The 44-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 2018
- Thursday, 13:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.21305, longitude -3.00506, in the CH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Garden City. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queensferry and Sealand, Flintshire, CH5 2JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W079669
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 550
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a fatal crash on 11 August 1995.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 11 August 1995
25 m awayRef 1995600C13092
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 10 October 2000
34 m awayRef 2000600FL5144
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 26 October 2015
44 m awayRef 201560S164175
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 8 June 1998
69 m awayRef 1998600FL6053
Slight
Car crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 22 June 1998
79 m awayRef 1998600FL6064
Serious
Van crash on the A494 in Flintshire, 19 December 1985
80 m awayRef 1985600C07382
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201860W079669 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 2018.