A34 crash in Cheshire East on 22 June 2008 at 06:20 involving a Smart Roadster
A car and a Smart Roadster were involved in a crash on the A34 in Cheshire East at 06:20 on Sunday 22 June 2008. The 32-year-old male driver of the Smart Roadster was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jun 2008
- Sunday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Smart Roadster
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30778, longitude -2.23739, in the SK9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alderley Edge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alderley Edge, Cheshire East, SK9 7QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008070185528
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2001.
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 25 May 2001
10 m awayRef 2001070103085
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 14 February 1999
22 m awayRef 1999079C20234
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 11 June 1992
22 m awayRef 1992072C20932
Serious
Taxi crash on the B5359 in Cheshire East, 9 December 2022
28 m awayRef 2022070909792
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the B5359 in Cheshire East, 9 February 2023
30 m awayRef 2023070115807
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East, 3 January 2000
76 m awayRef 2000070001056
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Smart Roadster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Smart Roadster)
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 2008070185528 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.