A56 crash in Trafford on 15 March 1987 at 22:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A56 in Trafford at 22:10 on Sunday 15 March 1987. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 48-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 1987
- Sunday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39731, longitude -2.35337, in the WA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Altrincham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198706M050987
- Council area
- Trafford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 56
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1981.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A56 in Trafford, 12 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198106M002005
Slight
Van crash on the A56 in Trafford, 27 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198106M001943
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Trafford, 4 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198906M203489
Serious
Car crash on the A56 in Trafford, 9 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198106M000428
Serious
Car crash on the A56 in Trafford, 11 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198206M122582
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Trafford, 29 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198806M023588
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198706M050987 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Trafford road accident statistics for 1987.