Serious unclassified road crash in Warrington WA5 on 15 December 2014 at 16:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Warrington at 16:25 on Monday 15 December 2014. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2014
- Monday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41132, longitude -2.62221, in the WA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westbrook, Warrington, WA5 7NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014074370874
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 slight injury crash on 15 December 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 15 December 2009
62 m awayRef 2009070392485
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 16 May 2007
69 m awayRef 2007070701881
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 18 November 2004
69 m awayRef 2004070405689
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 26 May 2007
78 m awayRef 2007070702013
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 29 April 2009
92 m awayRef 2009070131613
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 28 May 2001
92 m awayRef 2001070103165
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2014074370874 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2014.