B5178 crash in Halton on 17 March 2006 at 20:28 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Hyundai Getz were involved in a crash on the B5178 in Halton at 20:28 on Friday 17 March 2006. The 37-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Getz was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2006
- Friday, 20:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37065, longitude -2.76469, 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
- 2006070601051
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1994.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5178 in Halton, 25 December 1994
At the same spotRef 1994074B11893
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B5178 in Halton, 1 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007070216304
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the B5178 in Halton, 29 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997077B11032
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5178 in Halton, 20 September 2002
At the same spotRef 2002070204987
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5178 in Halton, 29 March 1994
At the same spotRef 1994074B10404
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B5178 in Halton, 24 September 1992
At the same spotRef 1992072B11189
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Getz)
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 2006070601051 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 2006.