B5178 crash in Halton on 22 December 1998 at 12:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort, a Renault 19 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B5178 in Halton at 12:45 on Tuesday 22 December 1998. The 30-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1998
- Tuesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37108, longitude -2.75565, 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
- 1998078B11993
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2009.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5178 in Halton, 3 July 2009
At the same spotRef 2009070208628
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5178 in Halton, 11 September 1998
At the same spotRef 1998078B11326
Slight
Scania crash on the B5178 in Halton, 11 July 2018
3 m awayRef 2018070210603
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5178 in Halton, 16 February 2016
6 m awayRef 2016076047243
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Halton, 4 September 2024
7 m awayRef 2024070764061
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5178 in Halton, 15 February 2021
7 m awayRef 2021070099531
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, 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 1998078B11993 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.