A669 crash in Oldham on 20 December 2016 at 11:50 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on the A669 in Oldham at 11:50 on Tuesday 20 December 2016. The 35-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53846, longitude -2.08567, in the OL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldham. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's, Oldham, OL4 1JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Oldham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201606Q025450
- Council area
- Oldham
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 669
- 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
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2003.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A669 in Oldham, 15 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200306Q012454
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A669 in Oldham, 9 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199806Q230398
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A669 in Oldham, 19 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200506Q034954
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A669 in Oldham, 23 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200906Q020911
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A669 in Oldham, 21 June 2013
At the same spotRef 201306Q075751
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A669 in Oldham, 19 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200906Q014574
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201606Q025450 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oldham road accident statistics for 2016.