Serious unclassified road crash in Warrington WA3 on 10 February 2002 at 19:45 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on an unclassified road in Warrington at 19:45 on Sunday 10 February 2002. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Feb 2002
- Sunday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44393, longitude -2.48536, in the WA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft, Warrington, WA3 5AP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002070200795
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 29 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997077B21971
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 22 September 2000
10 m awayRef 2000070011435
Slight
Tractor crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 15 March 2005
10 m awayRef 2005070501148
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 23 December 1997
10 m awayRef 1997077B21935
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 1 July 2002
14 m awayRef 2002070203434
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 13 February 2001
14 m awayRef 2001070101196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2002070200795 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 2002.