Fatal M62 crash in Warrington on 30 December 1979 at 08:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the M62 in Warrington at 08:55 on Sunday 30 December 1979. The 44-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened in daylight on a snow-covered dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197907LUIL280
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 62
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 44, 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 197907LUIL280 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.