Unclassified road crash in Bolton BL5 on 20 June 2009 at 13:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bolton at 13:00 on Saturday 20 June 2009. The 17-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 30-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2009
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Passat and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.56156, longitude -2.53638, in the BL5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wingates. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill, Bolton, BL5 3PW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bolton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200906K017784
- Council area
- Bolton
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 May 2006.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 12 May 2006
40 m awayRef 200606K049750
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 15 November 1991
58 m awayRef 199106K322791
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 15 November 1996
58 m awayRef 199606K122896
Slight
Lancia Dedra crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 10 June 2002
82 m awayRef 200206K012511
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 5 August 2022
89 m awayRef 2022061206194
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 31 March 2011
98 m awayRef 201106K044624
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 200906K017784 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolton road accident statistics for 2009.