Serious B5159 crash in Cheshire East on 22 June 2012 at 17:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the B5159 in Cheshire East at 17:40 on Friday 22 June 2012. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 2012
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3657, longitude -2.44675, in the WA13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Legh, Cheshire East, WA13 0TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012070171932
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5159
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B5159 in Cheshire East, 26 November 1980
36 m awayRef 1980070C21509
Serious
Mercedes 300 crash on the B5159 in Warrington, 20 June 1997
45 m awayRef 1997077B20828
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B5159 in Cheshire East, 12 February 2011
63 m awayRef 2011070040313
Slight
Car crash on the B5159 in Warrington, 17 October 1989
85 m awayRef 1989079D21483
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5159 in Warrington, 14 November 1993
85 m awayRef 1993073C21784
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B5159 in Warrington, 29 October 2008
98 m awayRef 2008070328374
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012070171932 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 2012.