Serious A525 crash in Wrexham on 21 October 2025 at 02:55 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A525 in Wrexham at 02:55 on Tuesday 21 October 2025. A 22-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 21-year-old male driver was 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
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2025
- Tuesday, 02:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04915, longitude -3.0384, in the LL11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wrexham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202560C163461
- Council area
- Wrexham
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 525
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2003.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A525 in Wrexham, 1 February 2003
13 m awayRef 2003600WR2008
Slight
Car crash on the A525 in Wrexham, 17 August 1979
18 m awayRef 1979600D06093
Slight
Car crash on the A525 in Wrexham, 10 August 1989
18 m awayRef 1989600D05580
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A525 in Wrexham, 12 April 1982
18 m awayRef 1982600D06042
Serious
Van crash on the A525 in Wrexham, 25 November 1983
89 m awayRef 1983600D06156
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A525 in Wrexham, 17 December 1990
89 m awayRef 1990600D05922
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 202560C163461 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.