Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 20 January 2011 at 02:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a DAF Trucks FTG 95XF lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 02:35 on Thursday 20 January 2011. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on an icy roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2011
- Thursday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and DAF Trucks FTG 95XF
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35163, longitude -2.65332, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011070017372
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 125 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 8 January 2014
125 m awayRef 2014074006621
Slight
HGV crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 2 July 2006
139 m awayRef 2006070602568
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 30 November 2023
146 m awayRef 2023071210987
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Halton, 5 February 2003
206 m awayRef 2003070300762
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A558 in Halton, 31 March 2016
238 m awayRef 2016076092072
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A558 in Halton, 26 May 2025
241 m awayRef 2025070433998
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks FTG 95XF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2011070017372 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 2011.