A538 crash in Cheshire East on 16 March 2011 at 14:45 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on the A538 in Cheshire East at 14:45 on Wednesday 16 March 2011. The 55-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2011
- Wednesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.287, longitude -2.13107, in the SK10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prestbury, Cheshire East, SK10 4EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011070070856
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 538
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the B5091 in Cheshire East, 25 April 2005
At the same spotRef 2005070501749
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 20 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001070104805
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 11 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002070203102
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 22 September 2000
At the same spotRef 2000070011519
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 24 September 1996
At the same spotRef 1996076C11477
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 6 June 2003
At the same spotRef 2003070303121
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, 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 2011070070856 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 2011.