A574 crash in Warrington on 16 May 2015 at 16:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, an Audi A6 and a Peugeot 308 were involved in a crash on the A574 in Warrington at 16:55 on Saturday 16 May 2015. The 47-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 47-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 308 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2015
- Saturday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46631, longitude -2.49331, in the WA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075138394
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 574
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 January 2002.
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A574 in Warrington, 5 January 2002
36 m awayRef 2002070200167
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 9 January 2002
36 m awayRef 2002070200184
Slight
Car crash on the A574 in Warrington, 25 July 1987
58 m awayRef 1987077D20898
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A574 in Warrington, 23 January 2000
65 m awayRef 2000070000958
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A574 in Warrington, 30 December 2018
82 m awayRef 2018070410133
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A574 in Warrington, 9 August 2022
86 m awayRef 2022070580772
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 308
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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 308)
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 2015075138394 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 2015.