C road crash in Halton WA8 on 7 December 2007 at 18:40 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 crashed on a C road in Halton at 18:40 on Friday 7 December 2007. The 18-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2007
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C2
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36122, longitude -2.73431, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central & West Bank, Halton, WA8 6GD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007070410400
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5419
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2005.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007070410400 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 2007.