C road crash in Halton WA8 on 20 January 2014 at 20:40 involving a Ford
A Ford and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 20:40 on Monday 20 January 2014. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2014
- Monday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37194, longitude -2.75601, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Halton, WA8 8SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014074018278
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1981.
Slight
Van crash on the B5178 in Halton, 13 February 1981
13 m awayRef 1981071D10207
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Halton, 2 November 1983
13 m awayRef 1983073D11444
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 14 April 1981
13 m awayRef 1981071D10469
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in Halton, 20 December 2005
25 m awayRef 2005070600067
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Halton, 15 August 2012
27 m awayRef 2012070231087
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Halton, 14 November 2003
34 m awayRef 2003070306516
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford)
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 2014074018278 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 2014.