B5079 crash in Cheshire East on 31 October 2011 at 08:45 involving a Suzuki Ignis
A Suzuki Ignis and a Rover 75 were involved in a crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East at 08:45 on Monday 31 October 2011. The 40-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Ignis 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
- 31 Oct 2011
- Monday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Ignis and Rover 75
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14638, longitude -2.39244, in the CW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Elworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sandbach Elworth, Cheshire East, CW11 3GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011070309879
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5079
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2002.
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 23 April 2002
At the same spotRef 2002070202132
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East, 13 January 2000
10 m awayRef 2000070000880
Fatal
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 19 December 1989
50 m awayRef 1989079B21614
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East, 3 July 2009
73 m awayRef 2009070208555
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 8 May 2019
92 m awayRef 2019070229162
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 4 August 2025
93 m awayRef 2025070647606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Ignis)
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 2011070309879 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.