C road crash in Halton WA8 on 9 March 2013 at 17:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Halton at 17:15 on Saturday 9 March 2013. A 25-year-old female passenger and a 5-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34249, longitude -2.78311, in the WA8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013070064818
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 November 2003.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Halton, 8 November 2003
20 m awayRef 2003070306353
Fatal
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Halton, 4 December 1993
32 m awayRef 1993073B11609
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Halton, 28 April 2013
43 m awayRef 2013073114202
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Halton, 4 November 2006
45 m awayRef 2006070604392
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 23 December 2013
55 m awayRef 2013073363599
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 9 February 1981
67 m awayRef 1981071D10183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2013070064818 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 2013.