C road crash in Halton WA7 on 20 February 2009 at 20:00 involving an Alfa Romeo 147
An Alfa Romeo 147 and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 20:00 on Friday 20 February 2009. The 40-year-old male driver of the Saab 9-3 and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Saab 9-3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2009
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alfa Romeo 147 and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33548, longitude -2.72591, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mersey & Weston, Halton, WA7 5AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009070057191
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 March 2004.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 15 March 2004
10 m awayRef 2004070401312
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 20 June 2000
10 m awayRef 2000070003678
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Halton, 5 November 2010
10 m awayRef 2010070324689
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5155 in Halton, 4 February 1998
10 m awayRef 1998078B40232
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on a C road in Halton, 28 January 2009
10 m awayRef 2009070027888
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Halton, 2 December 2002
14 m awayRef 2002070300152
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo 147
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
- 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 2009070057191 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 2009.