Serious A5022 crash in Cheshire East on 9 January 2014 at 05:05 involving a Mitsubishi Colt
A Mitsubishi Colt crashed on the A5022 in Cheshire East at 05:05 on Thursday 9 January 2014. The 45-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jan 2014
- Thursday, 05:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16873, longitude -2.33755, in the CW11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brereton Rural, Cheshire East, CW11 1SG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014074007530
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5022
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 62 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 February 1999.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A5022 in Cheshire East, 12 February 1999
62 m awayRef 1999079A40241
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the A5022 in Cheshire East, 5 July 2012
96 m awayRef 2012070186276
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5022 in Cheshire East, 26 July 1996
127 m awayRef 1996076C31143
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5022 in Cheshire East, 12 November 2003
137 m awayRef 2003070306540
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5022 in Cheshire East, 27 September 1999
139 m awayRef 1999079A41578
Fatal
Car crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 1 August 1982
170 m awayRef 1982072B20914
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi Colt)
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 2014074007530 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2014.