Serious A523 crash in Cheshire East on 8 November 2009 at 23:59 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and a car were involved in a crash on the A523 in Cheshire East at 23:59 on Sunday 8 November 2009. A 19-year-old male passenger in the MG ZR was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Nov 2009
- Sunday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32592, longitude -2.13449, in the SK10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009070354292
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 523
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 108 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 November 1982.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A523 in Cheshire East, 12 November 1982
108 m awayRef 1982072C11395
Serious
Car crash on the A523 in Cheshire East, 1 March 1981
117 m awayRef 1981071C10213
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 24 June 2002
125 m awayRef 2002070203346
Slight
Van crash on the A523 in Cheshire East, 17 May 1981
125 m awayRef 1981071C10517
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A523 in Cheshire East, 31 March 1993
149 m awayRef 1993073C10492
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5091 in Cheshire East, 5 February 2000
168 m awayRef 2000070001137
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZR)
- 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 2009070354292 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.