A6104 crash in Manchester on 1 January 2009 at 03:09 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A6104 in Manchester at 03:09 on Thursday 1 January 2009. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2009
- Thursday, 03:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53312, longitude -2.24453, in the M9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Higher Blackley, Manchester, M8 4WB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200906A008199
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6104
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 576
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A576 in Manchester, 12 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200106A010519
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6104 in Manchester, 10 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200306A015116
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A576 in Manchester, 6 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199706A112397
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A576 in Manchester, 20 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200306A014402
Slight
Bus crash on the A576 in Manchester, 11 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198906B005689
Serious
Car crash on the A6104 in Manchester, 18 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200106A010376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200906A008199 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2009.