A5078 crash in Cheshire East on 8 September 2006 at 14:39 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East at 14:39 on Friday 8 September 2006. The 23-year-old male driver of the other vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2006
- Friday, 14:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.09488, longitude -2.442, in the CW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crewe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crewe South, Cheshire East, CW2 7DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006070603654
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5078
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 December 2001.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 26 December 2001
At the same spotRef 2001070107543
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 30 August 1997
At the same spotRef 1997077C31535
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 19 July 2003
10 m awayRef 2003070304486
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 5 March 1997
10 m awayRef 1997077C30374
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 17 July 1998
10 m awayRef 1998078C31201
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 3 August 1998
10 m awayRef 1998078C31296
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 2006070603654 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2006.