Serious A5011 crash in Cheshire East on 4 March 2014 at 19:46 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and two Ford Fiestas were involved in a crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East at 19:46 on Tuesday 4 March 2014. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and the 65-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were seriously injured and a 21-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Mar 2014
- Tuesday, 19:46
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.08636, longitude -2.27924, in the ST7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014074060822
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5011
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1999.
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East, 25 November 1999
67 m awayRef 1999079A41964
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East, 28 January 1987
88 m awayRef 1987077B20097
Slight
Car crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East, 5 February 1986
96 m awayRef 1986076B20157
Serious
Car crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East, 10 October 1981
96 m awayRef 1981071B21340
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East, 2 August 1984
96 m awayRef 1984074B20996
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A5011 in Cheshire East, 16 March 2013
105 m awayRef 2013070071692
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2014074060822 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.