Unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 24 February 2002 at 20:35 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 20:35 on Sunday 24 February 2002. The 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2002
- Sunday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37232, longitude -2.7566, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Halton, WA8 8SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002070201084
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Halton, 26 February 1992
22 m awayRef 1992072B10552
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 6 January 2004
32 m awayRef 2004070400182
Slight
Rover 25 crash on a C road in Halton, 31 January 2004
32 m awayRef 2004070400490
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Halton, 14 November 2003
32 m awayRef 2003070306516
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 12 December 2025
33 m awayRef 2025071015098
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in Halton, 20 December 2005
36 m awayRef 2005070600067
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2002070201084 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 2002.