B5231 crash in Salford on 17 December 2012 at 14:42 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B5231 in Salford at 14:42 on Monday 17 December 2012. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 45-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48543, longitude -2.3585, in the M30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eccles. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eccles, Salford, M30 0XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Salford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201206F068266
- Council area
- Salford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5231
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2010.
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the B5231 in Salford, 25 April 2010
3 m awayRef 201006F030968
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B5231 in Salford, 9 June 2013
7 m awayRef 201306F074142
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B5231 in Salford, 28 January 2000
7 m awayRef 200006F005986
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B5231 in Salford, 29 March 2000
9 m awayRef 200006F006306
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B5231 in Salford, 29 December 1992
11 m awayRef 199206F320092
Slight
Van crash on the B5231 in Salford, 13 July 1994
11 m awayRef 199406F115894
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201206F068266 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Salford road accident statistics for 2012.