B5135 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 24 June 1984 at 02:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the B5135 in Cheshire West and Chester at 02:40 on Sunday 24 June 1984. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 1984
- Sunday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31386, longitude -3.07766, in the CH60 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984074A20809
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5135
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 4 July 1981.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5135 in Cheshire West and Chester, 4 July 1981
At the same spotRef 1981071A20982
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5135 in Cheshire West and Chester, 29 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982072A20767
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5135 in Cheshire West and Chester, 13 October 1984
At the same spotRef 1984074A21374
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B5135 in Cheshire West and Chester, 2 June 2017
20 m awayRef 2017077171489
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5135 in Cheshire East, 15 June 1997
32 m awayRef 1997077A20914
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B5135 in Cheshire East, 25 June 1996
32 m awayRef 1996076A20977
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1984074A20809 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 1984.