C road crash in Warrington WA5 on 2 April 2012 at 11:30 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on a C road in Warrington at 11:30 on Monday 2 April 2012. The 42-year-old male driver of the bus or coach 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
- 2 Apr 2012
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43804, longitude -2.66323, in the WA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012070120433
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1997.
Slight
Nissan D21 crash on a C road in Warrington, 14 February 1997
42 m awayRef 1997077B20218
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Warrington, 2 December 2002
64 m awayRef 2002070207042
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on a C road in Warrington, 19 April 1999
64 m awayRef 1999079B20529
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Warrington, 12 June 1996
71 m awayRef 1996076B20832
Serious
Jaguar Sovereign crash on a C road in Warrington, 13 March 1995
71 m awayRef 1995075B20352
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Warrington, 1 September 1983
89 m awayRef 1983073D21105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
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 2012070120433 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2012.