C road crash in Halton WA8 on 28 February 1998 at 21:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Halton at 21:20 on Saturday 28 February 1998. The 19-year-old male driver was 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
- 28 Feb 1998
- Saturday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37996, longitude -2.75762, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998078B10308
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 September 1995.
Serious
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At the same spotRef 1995075B11274
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Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Halton, 12 August 1995
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Car crash on a C road in Halton, 14 October 1984
20 m awayRef 1984074D11360
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Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 5 November 1999
20 m awayRef 1999079B11733
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Chrysler Sunbeam crash on a C road in Halton, 30 March 1992
20 m awayRef 1992072B10404
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1998078B10308 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 1998.