Unclassified road crash in Manchester M8 on 3 November 2016 at 18:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Manchester at 18:15 on Thursday 3 November 2016. The 37-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2016
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51727, longitude -2.24684, in the M8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crumpsall, Manchester, M8 9JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201606A022567
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 35 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 September 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 12 September 1985
35 m awayRef 198506B139885
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 31 December 1996
35 m awayRef 199606A164097
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 22 June 1986
35 m awayRef 198606B101386
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 20 August 1984
35 m awayRef 198406B122684
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 6 August 1985
71 m awayRef 198506B120085
Serious
Volvo 244 crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 12 April 1990
71 m awayRef 199006B086290
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201606A022567 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2016.