B5081 crash in Cheshire East on 30 January 2008 at 10:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A vehicle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B5081 in Cheshire East at 10:30 on Wednesday 30 January 2008. The 40-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2008
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.26929, longitude -2.38247, in the WA16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008070029979
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5081
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5081 in Cheshire East, 8 October 2014
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5081 in Cheshire East, 24 October 2009
22 m awayRef 2009070337008
Slight
Car crash on the B5081 in Cheshire East, 21 October 1982
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Serious
Car crash on the B5081 in Cheshire East, 13 February 1984
32 m awayRef 1984074C20170
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B5081 in Cheshire West and Chester, 26 December 2015
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Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B5081 in Cheshire East, 20 April 2016
65 m awayRef 2016076113304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2008070029979 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 2008.