C road crash in Warrington WA5 on 24 July 1998 at 17:05 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on a C road in Warrington at 17:05 on Friday 24 July 1998. The 38-year-old female driver of the Toyota Corolla and the 38-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 1998
- Friday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41747, longitude -2.64664, in the WA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998078B21095
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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 17 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Warrington, 17 December 1998
At the same spotRef 1998078B21991
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in Warrington, 20 April 2000
10 m awayRef 2000070002560
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Warrington, 8 January 1996
10 m awayRef 1996076B20019
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Warrington, 12 October 1996
10 m awayRef 1996076B21504
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Warrington, 22 December 1983
28 m awayRef 1983073D21715
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 2 June 1997
32 m awayRef 1997077B20733
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 1998078B21095 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 1998.