B5178 crash in Halton on 29 November 2012 at 06:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a White Knuckle 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5178 in Halton at 06:35 on Thursday 29 November 2012. The 26-year-old male rider of the White Knuckle 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and White Knuckle 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37312, longitude -2.71038, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halton View, Halton, WA8 0BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012072342914
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5178 in Halton, 15 August 2006
6 m awayRef 2006070603219
Serious
Audi Q5 crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 21 February 2023
18 m awayRef 2023070152622
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B5178 in Halton, 4 April 2005
19 m awayRef 2005070501431
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5178 in Halton, 9 January 2006
19 m awayRef 2006070600116
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Halton, 8 May 2003
32 m awayRef 2003070302512
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B5178 in Halton, 8 June 2000
33 m awayRef 2000070003437
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: White Knuckle 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (White Knuckle 125)
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 2012072342914 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 2012.