A533 crash in Halton on 5 June 2014 at 17:30 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars, a Volkswagen Bora and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on the A533 in Halton at 17:30 on Thursday 5 June 2014. A 50-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1, a 20-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Bora and a 16-year-old female passenger in the Citroen Xsara were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2014
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33848, longitude -2.70349, in the WA7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halton Castle, Halton, WA7 2LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014074160073
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 533
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 July 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A533 in Halton, 8 July 2008
21 m awayRef 2008070203236
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A533 in Halton, 10 June 1996
24 m awayRef 1996076B40807
Serious
Leyland Roadrunner crash on the A533 in Halton, 3 February 1997
24 m awayRef 1997077B40171
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A533 in Halton, 12 September 2004
31 m awayRef 2004070404476
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A533 in Halton, 18 May 2010
33 m awayRef 2010070139595
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A533 in Halton, 31 March 2007
34 m awayRef 2007070701375
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Bora)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Citroen Xsara)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2014074160073 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.