A548 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 15 January 2002 at 18:45 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester at 18:45 on Tuesday 15 January 2002. The 37-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo 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
- 15 Jan 2002
- Tuesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19556, longitude -2.92712, in the CH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blacon, Cheshire West and Chester, CH1 5QW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002070200653
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 548
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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 21 September 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester, 21 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002070205214
Slight
BMW Z3 crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester, 9 March 2007
14 m awayRef 2007070701036
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester, 4 October 1998
14 m awayRef 1998078A11615
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester, 10 April 1997
22 m awayRef 1997077A10548
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester, 9 May 2019
30 m awayRef 2019070231555
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A548 in Cheshire West and Chester, 24 December 2010
32 m awayRef 2010070372932
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2002070200653 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 2002.