C road crash in Trafford M33 on 21 December 2012 at 18:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Fusion were involved in a crash on a C road in Trafford at 18:00 on Friday 21 December 2012. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2012
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42512, longitude -2.30615, in the M33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sale. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sale Moor, Trafford, M33 2WD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Trafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201206M068614
- Council area
- Trafford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2002.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Trafford, 17 May 2002
4 m awayRef 200206M009635
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on a C road in Trafford, 26 March 2009
6 m awayRef 200906M013845
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Trafford, 22 October 2004
6 m awayRef 200406M912535
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 1 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024061511493
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 29 January 1979
57 m awayRef 197906M000151
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 20 January 1980
93 m awayRef 198006M000099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fusion)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fusion)
- 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 201206M068614 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Trafford road accident statistics for 2012.