A51 crash in Cheshire East on 9 November 2012 at 20:36 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a Toyota Celica were involved in a crash on the A51 in Cheshire East at 20:36 on Friday 9 November 2012. The 56-year-old male driver of the Toyota Aygo and the 35-year-old female driver of the Toyota Celica 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
- 9 Nov 2012
- Friday, 20:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.08146, longitude -2.55517, in the CW5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bunbury, Cheshire East, CW5 8LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012070322676
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 51
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 51
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 2004.
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A534 in Cheshire East, 7 January 2004
At the same spotRef 2004070400094
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 21 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997077C31228
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 2 October 1996
At the same spotRef 1996076C31532
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 12 November 1997
At the same spotRef 1997077C32005
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 9 August 1999
At the same spotRef 1999079C31292
Serious
Piaggio Zip crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 13 September 2009
At the same spotRef 2009070293331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
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
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Celica)
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 2012070322676 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.