Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL12 on 9 September 2018 at 00:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 00:30 on Sunday 9 September 2018. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Sep 2018
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.09453, longitude -2.99813, in the LL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Llay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Llay, Wrexham, LL12 0SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W129381
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 April 2015.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 22 April 2015
42 m awayRef 201560S057214
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 29 March 2023
62 m awayRef 202360A044929
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 3 December 2009
100 m awayRef 2009609228214
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 17 September 1996
128 m awayRef 1996600WR3111
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 5 September 2014
134 m awayRef 201460R139984
Slight
Bus crash on the B5425 in Wrexham, 23 May 1980
135 m awayRef 1980600D07102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 201860W129381 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.