Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 13 November 1997 at 23:00 involving a Bedford van
A Bedford van and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 23:00 on Thursday 13 November 1997. The 23-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 106 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
- 13 Nov 1997
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bedford and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34022, longitude -2.66995, in the WA7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997077B41703
- 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
- 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 27 November 1984.
Slight
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 21 December 1995
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 12 May 2009
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Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 9 October 1996
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
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 1997077B41703 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 1997.