Serious C road crash in Cheshire West and Chester CH1 on 15 September 2008 at 15:28 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 crashed on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester at 15:28 on Monday 15 September 2008. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 2008
- Monday, 15:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.21916, longitude -2.96537, in the CH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saughall.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008070280447
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
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 1 April 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 1 April 1996
14 m awayRef 1996076A10471
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 2 February 2005
50 m awayRef 2005600FL6007
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 30 January 1989
57 m awayRef 1989079A10147
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 29 September 1985
72 m awayRef 1985075A11292
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 16 October 2018
79 m awayRef 2018070324864
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Flintshire, 27 December 1999
94 m awayRef 1999600FL6122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
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 2008070280447 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 2008.