Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 22 July 2018 at 15:38 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 15:38 on Sunday 22 July 2018. A 2-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 15:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04224, longitude -2.98575, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W102071
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2001.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 14 January 2001
8 m awayRef 2001600WR1010
Slight
Subaru Subaru crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 19 March 1990
9 m awayRef 1990600D05183
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 7 December 2015
19 m awayRef 201560S187032
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 17 November 2000
24 m awayRef 2000600WR1305
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 3 March 1998
24 m awayRef 1998600WR1066
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 6 April 2001
24 m awayRef 2001600WR1090
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201860W102071 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 2018.