B5393 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 7 February 1988 at 21:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester at 21:05 on Sunday 7 February 1988. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1988
- Sunday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27957, longitude -2.74084, in the WA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988078E20168
- 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
- 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
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2000.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 19 June 2000
20 m awayRef 2000070003679
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 22 January 2017
35 m awayRef 2017077021852
Slight
Car crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 19 June 1999
36 m awayRef 1999079A30936
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 25 February 2005
51 m awayRef 2005070500885
Slight
Car crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 5 June 1982
100 m awayRef 1982072E20640
Serious
Car crash on the B5393 in Cheshire West and Chester, 19 February 1989
100 m awayRef 1989079E20221
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 1988078E20168 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 1988.