Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 15 December 2012 at 12:00 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 12:00 on Saturday 15 December 2012. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Renault Laguna and a 17-year-old female passenger in the Renault Laguna were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33911, longitude -2.67649, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norton North, Halton, WA7 6QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012072358967
- Council area
- Halton
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2020.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 23 October 2000
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Slight
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Slight
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Fatal
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 10 August 1996
76 m awayRef 1996076B41122
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2012072358967 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.