Unclassified road crash in Halton WA4 on 27 March 2011 at 09:16 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry, a Citroen Saxo and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 09:16 on Sunday 27 March 2011. The 33-year-old female driver of the Citroen Saxo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2011
- Sunday, 09:16
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32126, longitude -2.64956, in the WA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norton South & Preston Brook, Halton, WA7 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011070081772
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 56
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2019.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A56 in Halton, 18 January 2019
2 m awayRef 2019070018094
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A56 in Halton, 26 August 2011
14 m awayRef 2011070241786
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A56 in Halton, 28 January 2000
14 m awayRef 2000070001083
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A56 in Halton, 28 September 2022
20 m awayRef 2022070718920
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A56 in Halton, 9 May 1993
22 m awayRef 1993073B40548
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A56 in Halton, 7 January 2001
41 m awayRef 2001070100323
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,958 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
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 2011070081772 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.