A665 crash in Manchester on 23 December 2014 at 04:25 involving a Citroen C1
A car and a Citroen C1 were involved in a crash on the A665 in Manchester at 04:25 on Tuesday 23 December 2014. The 54-year-old male driver of the Citroen C1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 04:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48068, longitude -2.22464, in the M1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ancoats & Beswick, Manchester, M4 6LG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201406A095425
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 665
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 27 December 2025
1 m awayRef 2025061688502
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A665 in Manchester, 15 June 1997
2 m awayRef 199706A042697
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 25 October 2003
2 m awayRef 200306A016077
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A665 in Manchester, 11 January 2002
2 m awayRef 200206A011431
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A665 in Manchester, 1 August 1997
2 m awayRef 199706A072897
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A665 in Manchester, 27 February 2001
2 m awayRef 200106A009193
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
Vehicle 2: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C1)
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 201406A095425 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2014.