Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 6 April 2004 at 12:58 involving a Scania bus
A car and a Scania bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 12:58 on Tuesday 6 April 2004. The 31-year-old male driver of the Scania bus and a 46-year-old female passenger in the Scania bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2004
- Tuesday, 12:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Scania
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32925, longitude -2.66815, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004070401649
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Scania)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2004070401649 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 2004.