C road crash in Trafford M17 on 28 May 2002 at 10:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Trafford at 10:00 on Tuesday 28 May 2002. The 58-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2002
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46265, longitude -2.31748, in the M17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Old Trafford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gorse Hill & Cornbrook, Trafford, M17 1QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Trafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200206M009698
- Council area
- Trafford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual 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
- A
- Second road number
- 518
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 18 January 2013.
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Peugeot 206 crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 14 August 2007
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DAF Trucks FTG 95XF crash on a C road in Trafford, 2 December 2002
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Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Trafford, 13 May 2018
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Volkswagen UP crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 10 November 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
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 200206M009698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Trafford road accident statistics for 2002.