B5078 crash in Cheshire East on 14 August 2015 at 14:45 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Skoda Citigo were involved in a crash on the B5078 in Cheshire East at 14:45 on Friday 14 August 2015. The 30-year-old female driver of the Audi A4 and the 78-year-old female driver of the Skoda Citigo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2015
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Skoda Citigo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10007, longitude -2.3121, in the ST7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alsager. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alsager, Cheshire East, ST7 2AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075239980
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5078
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B5078 in Cheshire East, 5 November 1985
20 m awayRef 1985075B21523
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 22 April 1983
20 m awayRef 1983073B20534
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 4 September 1986
20 m awayRef 1986076B21221
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5078 in Cheshire East, 23 January 1990
20 m awayRef 1990070B20099
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5078 in Cheshire East, 25 October 2023
31 m awayRef 2023071053235
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B5078 in Cheshire East, 4 August 2023
33 m awayRef 2023070711600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Citigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- 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
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Citigo)
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 2015075239980 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 2015.