Unclassified road crash in Cheshire East CW5 on 2 April 1989 at 16:20 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in Cheshire East at 16:20 on Sunday 2 April 1989. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1989
- Sunday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06137, longitude -2.52968, in the CW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nantwich.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989079B10434
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2009.
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 8 August 2000
85 m awayRef 2000070010641
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Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 13 October 2008
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 31 August 1984
100 m awayRef 1984074B11138
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 10 November 1981
141 m awayRef 1981071B11524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1989079B10434 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 1989.