Unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 14 September 1996 at 12:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Halton at 12:30 on Saturday 14 September 1996. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 1996
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37074, longitude -2.72348, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076B11322
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5178
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 December 2025.
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Jeep Cherokee crash on the B5178 in Halton, 12 December 2009
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Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 22 July 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1996076B11322 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 1996.