B5178 crash in Halton on 12 December 2015 at 18:30 involving a Ford KA
A car and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the B5178 in Halton at 18:30 on Saturday 12 December 2015. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37046, longitude -2.74377, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central & West Bank, Halton, WA8 7ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075371336
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2023.
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Halton, 10 May 2023
5 m awayRef 2023070397648
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5178 in Halton, 5 December 2008
10 m awayRef 2008070368606
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the B5178 in Halton, 8 March 2012
13 m awayRef 2012070064653
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 28 July 2010
16 m awayRef 2010070218782
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5178 in Halton, 23 January 1982
16 m awayRef 1982072D10115
Slight
Dacia Sandero crash on the B5178 in Halton, 16 September 2020
18 m awayRef 2020070559989
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2015075371336 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.