Unclassified road crash in Warrington WA2 on 18 December 1996 at 02:48 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on an unclassified road in Warrington at 02:48 on Wednesday 18 December 1996. The 32-year-old male driver and a 28-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1996
- Wednesday, 02:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41288, longitude -2.55871, in the WA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076B31929
- Council area
- Warrington
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1996076B31929 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1996.