{"id":648476,"date":"2025-12-22T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:57:16","slug":"police-watchdog-issues-statement-after-woman-seriously-injured-in-a483-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/648476\/","title":{"rendered":"Police watchdog issues statement after woman seriously injured in A483 incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dual carriageway was shut in both directions following an incident earlier this month<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_A483.jpg\" alt=\"The A483 near the B&amp;Q roundabout\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The A483 near the B&amp;Q roundabout<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The police watchdog has issued a statement after a woman suffered serious injuries during an incident which led to the closure of the A483. North Wales Police referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct [IOPC] after the woman was injured in an incident at around 4.30pm <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/north-wales-news\/woman-suffers-serious-injuries-during-33083876\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">on Wednesday, December 17.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The A483 was closed in both directions amid &#8220;concerns for the safety of a woman&#8221;. Police later confirmed a woman was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The IOPC have now confirmed they have assessed the referral, and passed it back to North Wales Police. A spokesperson said: &#8220;We received a referral from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/all-about\/north-wales-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">North Wales Police<\/a> in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;After carrying out a thorough assessment of the information provided we decided that it should be returned for the force to deal with as it sees fit and without formal direction to investigate.\u201d <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=da31e0f9-0bf2-4091-bc59-f8c65b1f2341&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sign up for the North Wales Live newsletter<\/a> sent twice daily to your inbox<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Following the incident, a North Wales Police spokesperson said: &#8220;Shortly before 4.30pm yesterday (Wednesday, 17 December), officers responded to concerns for the safety of woman seen near junction 5 of the A483 in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/all-about\/wrexham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Wrexham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;A temporary road closure was enforced whilst officers were at the scene. A 25-year-old woman was later transferred to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).&#8221; Join the North Wales Live <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/north-wales-news\/join-north-wales-live-whatsapp-27935216\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">WhatsApp community group where you can get the latest stories delivered straight to your phone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dual carriageway was shut in both directions following an incident earlier this monthThe A483 near the B&amp;Q&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[198714,748,4884,23824,16,15,1764,18833],"class_list":{"0":"post-648476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-a483","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-north-wales-police","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wales","15":"tag-wrexham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115763810143350841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}