Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 15 December 2004 at 18:49 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 18:49 on Wednesday 15 December 2004. A 35-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 10-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 18:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33879, longitude -2.72792, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mersey & Weston, Halton, WA7 5AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004070406201
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 533
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A533 in Halton, 2 August 2014
4 m awayRef 2014074226691
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A533 in Halton, 21 December 1994
10 m awayRef 1994074B41854
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A533 in Halton, 15 August 2014
17 m awayRef 2014074240966
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A533 in Halton, 10 November 1998
22 m awayRef 1998078B41693
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A558 in Halton, 7 March 2009
22 m awayRef 2009070069172
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A558 in Halton, 2 December 2025
28 m awayRef 2025070985576
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2004070406201 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.