Serious B5126 crash in Flintshire on 18 November 2018 at 02:07 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on the B5126 in Flintshire at 02:07 on Sunday 18 November 2018. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2018
- Sunday, 02:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20859, longitude -3.11436, in the CH7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Flintshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201860W164646
- Council area
- Flintshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5126
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 22 May 1986
130 m awayRef 1986600C07137
Slight
BMW crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 27 June 1992
130 m awayRef 1992600C07231
Slight
Car crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 23 August 1981
174 m awayRef 1981600C07239
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 16 September 1983
174 m awayRef 1983600C07269
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 18 December 1997
179 m awayRef 1997600FL8061
Slight
Car crash on the B5126 in Flintshire, 12 December 2015
208 m awayRef 201560S189669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 201860W164646 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.