Serious unclassified road crash in Wrexham LL13 on 11 July 2022 at 16:48 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wrexham at 16:48 on Monday 11 July 2022. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2022
- Monday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04167, longitude -2.96719, in the LL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrexham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queensway, Wrexham, LL13 9PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202260B101346
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- 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, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 1997.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 9 July 1997
43 m awayRef 1997600WR1172
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 20 December 1979
52 m awayRef 1979600D05381
Slight
Honda XL125R crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 16 September 1994
52 m awayRef 1994600D05276
Slight
E-scooter crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 4 October 2023
54 m awayRef 202360A159477
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 27 July 1995
99 m awayRef 1995600D05206
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 30 December 2002
99 m awayRef 2002600WR1400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 202260B101346 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 2022.