Unclassified road crash in Warrington WA1 on 15 December 2012 at 05:20 involving a Mazda 626
A Mazda 626 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Warrington at 05:20 on Saturday 15 December 2012. The 38-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 05:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 626 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4073, longitude -2.53925, in the WA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rixton and Woolston, Warrington, WA1 4QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012070358045
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2019.
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 8 May 1995
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Lada Samara crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 2 March 1994
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Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 8 June 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2012070358045 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.