B5426 crash in Wrexham on 15 February 2025 at 00:50 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 crashed on the B5426 in Wrexham at 00:50 on Saturday 15 February 2025. A 15-year-old female passenger and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2025
- Saturday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 308
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03659, longitude -3.06895, in the LL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202560C021445
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5426
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 97 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 21 July 1979
97 m awayRef 1979600D06079
Serious
Car crash on the B5426 in Wrexham, 30 August 2003
333 m awayRef 2003600WR1252
Slight
Car crash on the B5426 in Wrexham, 23 December 2019
421 m awayRef 201960X183348
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wrexham, 9 May 2000
576 m awayRef 2000600WR7033
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B5426 in Wrexham, 9 September 1996
618 m awayRef 1996600WR2084
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5426 in Wrexham, 20 March 2001
673 m awayRef 2001600WR2020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 202560C021445 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 2025.