Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 16 August 2016 at 16:30 involving a MAN bus
A MAN bus crashed on an unclassified road in Halton at 16:30 on Tuesday 16 August 2016. A 55-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MAN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3202, longitude -2.66937, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norton South & Preston Brook, Halton, WA7 6GJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016076249735
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2023.
Slight
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11 m awayRef 1994074B40300
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 2 July 2004
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Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 19 February 2005
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 23 February 2007
26 m awayRef 2007070700708
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 12 October 1991
28 m awayRef 1991071B41414
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,816 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MAN)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2016076249735 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 2016.