B5212 crash in Warrington on 23 December 2003 at 12:53 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B5212 in Warrington at 12:53 on Tuesday 23 December 2003. The 60-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van, a 24-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van and the 39-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 12:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4215, longitude -2.45245, in the WA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003070307342
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2015.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 20 July 2015
21 m awayRef 2015075211225
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 14 April 2016
31 m awayRef 2016076106842
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 11 July 2007
40 m awayRef 2007070236876
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 15 February 1983
76 m awayRef 1983073D20212
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 14 September 1991
173 m awayRef 1991071B31253
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 21 July 1998
210 m awayRef 1998078B21084
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2003070307342 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 2003.