B5118 crash in Denbighshire on 18 December 2025 at 10:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B5118 in Denbighshire at 10:45 on Thursday 18 December 2025. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32334, longitude -3.48962, in the LL18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhyl. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rhyl West, Denbighshire, LL18 1BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Denbighshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202560C195312
- Council area
- Denbighshire
- Police force
- North Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 6 July 2003
33 m awayRef 2003600DE2130
Slight
Lorry crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 3 June 1994
53 m awayRef 1994600C03085
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Denbighshire, 4 March 1982
53 m awayRef 1982600C03027
Serious
Car crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 17 May 1992
57 m awayRef 1992600C03136
Serious
Car crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 30 August 1987
57 m awayRef 1987600C03194
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5118 in Denbighshire, 27 June 1993
57 m awayRef 1993600C03073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 849 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), 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 202560C195312 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 2025.