A56 crash in Bury on 26 December 2016 at 18:05 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A56 in Bury at 18:05 on Monday 26 December 2016. The 52-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2016
- Monday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53228, longitude -2.28485, in the M25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prestwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holyrood, Bury, M25 3DZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201606N025338
- Council area
- Bury
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 56
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 October 2019.
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Bury, 17 October 2019
3 m awayRef 201906N263664
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A56 in Bury, 27 August 2005
4 m awayRef 200506N033442
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the A56 in Bury, 18 July 2003
4 m awayRef 200306N009799
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A56 in Bury, 11 September 2015
4 m awayRef 201506NA05814
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A56 in Bury, 20 January 2004
4 m awayRef 200406N010577
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A56 in Manchester, 16 August 1997
8 m awayRef 199706A082897
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201606N025338 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bury road accident statistics for 2016.