Serious A556 crash in Cheshire East on 23 December 2006 at 15:45 involving a Honda S2000
A Honda S2000 and a car were involved in a crash on the A556 in Cheshire East at 15:45 on Saturday 23 December 2006. The 34-year-old male driver of the Honda S2000 was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2006
- Saturday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda S2000 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35229, longitude -2.40214, in the WA16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Legh, Cheshire East, WA16 6RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006070605244
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 556
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2002.
Slight
MAN crash on the A556 in Cheshire East, 20 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002070204994
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A556 in Cheshire East, 22 March 2003
22 m awayRef 2003070301613
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A556 in Cheshire East, 18 July 2003
28 m awayRef 2003070304073
Slight
Honda CBR1100XX crash on the A556 in Cheshire East, 4 July 1999
28 m awayRef 1999079C21271
Fatal
Car crash on the A556 in Cheshire East, 28 July 1982
32 m awayRef 1982072C20890
Serious
Car crash on the A556 in Cheshire East, 10 August 1988
32 m awayRef 1988078C20873
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda S2000
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda S2000)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2006070605244 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.