Unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 6 April 2005 at 13:25 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Halton at 13:25 on Wednesday 6 April 2005. A 17-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2005
- Wednesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36304, longitude -2.73149, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central & West Bank, Halton, WA8 6GD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005070501520
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1994.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on a C road in Halton, 9 June 1994
10 m awayRef 1994074B10721
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Halton, 16 April 2002
14 m awayRef 2002070202009
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 15 July 1994
14 m awayRef 1994074B10897
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Halton, 28 May 1993
20 m awayRef 1993073B10655
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Halton, 22 June 1993
20 m awayRef 1993073B10770
Slight
Renault 9 crash on a C road in Halton, 14 May 1996
22 m awayRef 1996076B10663
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing 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 2005070501520 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 2005.