Unclassified road crash in Cheshire West and Chester CH1 on 22 January 2015 at 06:46 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire West and Chester at 06:46 on Thursday 22 January 2015. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 06:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22396, longitude -2.95834, in the CH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saughall.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075019529
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- 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
- 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, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 1997.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 27 August 1997
16 m awayRef 1997077A11361
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 22 November 1980
21 m awayRef 1980070A11838
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 24 February 1992
21 m awayRef 1992072A10248
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 7 January 2011
22 m awayRef 2011070005676
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 25 September 2001
30 m awayRef 2001070105448
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 11 March 2002
30 m awayRef 2002070201373
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015075019529 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 2015.