Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 24 September 2018 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
Two motorcycles were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 15:00 on Monday 24 September 2018. The 20-year-old male rider of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2018
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04545, longitude -2.9999, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brynyffynnon, Wrexham, LL11 1SU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W137643
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2003.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 3 March 2003
14 m awayRef 2003600WR1066
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 20 July 1998
14 m awayRef 1998600WR1207
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 31 July 2025
19 m awayRef 202560C117026
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 6 February 2006
38 m awayRef 2006600WR1049
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 June 2009
42 m awayRef 2009609100636
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 2 August 2007
43 m awayRef 2007600WR1214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 201860W137643 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.