C road crash in Halton WA7 on 19 December 1996 at 19:00 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Rover 800 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 19:00 on Thursday 19 December 1996. The 32-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31637, longitude -2.69044, in the WA7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076B41940
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 533
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2000.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 6 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000070013197
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Halton, 27 September 1996
10 m awayRef 1996076B41417
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Halton, 29 November 2008
14 m awayRef 2008070364237
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 18 April 2000
20 m awayRef 2000070002494
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 29 May 2005
20 m awayRef 2005070502296
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on a C road in Halton, 2 May 1999
20 m awayRef 1999079B40612
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
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 1996076B41940 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.