A5115 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 1 September 2006 at 17:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester at 17:50 on Friday 1 September 2006. The 58-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class and the 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2006
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19009, longitude -2.86564, in the CH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Boughton, Cheshire West and Chester, CH3 5SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006070603425
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5115
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester, 14 February 2000
14 m awayRef 2000070001879
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester, 2 July 2002
14 m awayRef 2002070203443
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester, 26 June 1997
20 m awayRef 1997077A10980
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester, 18 May 1992
20 m awayRef 1992072A10664
Serious
Vauxhall Viva crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester, 6 July 1994
20 m awayRef 1994074A10993
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A5115 in Cheshire West and Chester, 27 May 1994
20 m awayRef 1994074A10744
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2006070603425 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 2006.