B5393 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 14 March 1981 at 16:08 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester at 16:08 on Saturday 14 March 1981. A 62-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 1-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Mar 1981
- Saturday, 16:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2419, longitude -2.7282, in the WA6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981071E10296
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5393
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1993.
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 13 July 1993
70 m awayRef 1993073A31042
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 3 January 2024
70 m awayRef 2024070020891
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 19 December 2014
73 m awayRef 2014074375175
Serious
Scania crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 3 June 2009
80 m awayRef 2009070172727
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 16 June 1998
80 m awayRef 1998078A30966
Slight
Volvo V90 crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 22 September 2022
87 m awayRef 2022070706735
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1981071E10296 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 1981.