B5130 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 29 March 1996 at 21:06 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester at 21:06 on Friday 29 March 1996. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 29 Mar 1996
- Friday, 21:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18765, longitude -2.86901, in the CH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076A10455
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5130
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2023.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester, 19 April 2023
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Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester, 22 July 1997
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester, 4 April 1997
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Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester, 1 May 2019
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Slight
Bus crash on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester, 12 May 1981
42 m awayRef 1981071A10680
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the B5130 in Cheshire West and Chester, 21 October 2006
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1996076A10455 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 1996.