Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 10 December 2015 at 14:30 involving a Hyundai Accent
A Hyundai Accent and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 14:30 on Thursday 10 December 2015. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Hyundai Accent was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Accent and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33634, longitude -2.70051, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgewater, Halton, WA7 2SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075368907
- Council area
- Halton
- 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
- T or staggered 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
- Fine, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 March 1996.
Serious
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Halton, 6 March 1996
2 m awayRef 1996076B40301
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Halton, 25 September 1998
2 m awayRef 1998078B41428
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Halton, 4 February 1994
2 m awayRef 1994074B40299
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Halton, 2 August 2002
8 m awayRef 2002070204063
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on a C road in Halton, 3 January 2007
8 m awayRef 2007070700055
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 18 December 1997
8 m awayRef 1997077B41919
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Accent)
- 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 2015075368907 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 2015.