M6 crash in Warrington on 29 December 1979 at 11:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the M6 in Warrington at 11:45 on Saturday 29 December 1979. The 55-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a one-way street or slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197907LTLJ280
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197907LTLJ280 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1979.