A530 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 21 December 1996 at 16:55 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica crashed on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester at 16:55 on Saturday 21 December 1996. The 43-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1996
- Saturday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2661, longitude -2.47328, in the CW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076A32082
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 530
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester, 13 October 1996
10 m awayRef 1996076A31525
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester, 13 July 1996
14 m awayRef 1996076A31024
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester, 2 April 1993
14 m awayRef 1993073A30464
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester, 3 July 2012
14 m awayRef 2012070183202
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester, 28 April 2025
32 m awayRef 2025070352012
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A530 in Cheshire West and Chester, 18 October 2002
51 m awayRef 2002070205561
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
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 1996076A32082 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.