C road crash in Halton WA8 on 7 December 2006 at 20:11 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Halton at 20:11 on Thursday 7 December 2006. The 34-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 20:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34176, longitude -2.78369, in the WA8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006070604978
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 January 1999.
Fatal
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Halton, 9 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999079B10047
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on a C road in Halton, 26 October 2002
36 m awayRef 2002070205757
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Halton, 11 July 2005
41 m awayRef 2005070503004
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Halton, 4 November 2006
45 m awayRef 2006070604392
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Halton, 28 April 2013
48 m awayRef 2013073114202
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 1 December 1982
54 m awayRef 1982072D11677
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2006070604978 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.