Serious A6 crash in Cheshire East on 19 January 2009 at 18:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A6 in Cheshire East at 18:40 on Monday 19 January 2009. A 48-year-old female pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jan 2009
- Monday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35881, longitude -2.018, in the SK12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009070018607
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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 27 April 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Cheshire East, 27 April 1997
14 m awayRef 1997077C10780
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A6 in Cheshire East, 30 May 1994
22 m awayRef 1994074C10795
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 24 February 1995
30 m awayRef 1995075C10308
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6 in Cheshire East, 3 November 1992
58 m awayRef 1992072C11693
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A6 in Cheshire East, 25 June 2003
58 m awayRef 2003070303492
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Cheshire East, 26 September 1989
60 m awayRef 1989079C11038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2009070018607 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 2009.