A55 crash in Denbighshire on 27 November 2023 at 01:39 involving a Maserati Ghibli
A Maserati Ghibli crashed on the A55 in Denbighshire at 01:39 on Monday 27 November 2023. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2023
- Monday, 01:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Maserati Ghibli
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26254, longitude -3.44734, in the LL17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Asaph West, Denbighshire, LL17 0LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202360A187464
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 55
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 39 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 2010.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 11 April 2010
39 m awayRef 201060L061844
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 11 July 1992
51 m awayRef 1992600C04111
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 9 April 1998
54 m awayRef 1998600DE4037
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 10 August 1995
62 m awayRef 1995600C04149
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 12 January 1995
62 m awayRef 1995600C04004
Slight
Car crash on the A55 in Denbighshire, 15 February 1989
62 m awayRef 1989600C04028
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Maserati Ghibli
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Maserati Ghibli)
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 202360A187464 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Denbighshire road accident statistics for 2023.