Serious A574 crash in Warrington on 19 September 2016 at 08:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A574 in Warrington at 08:10 on Monday 19 September 2016. The 40-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 2016
- Monday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47966, longitude -2.49972, in the WA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leigh South, Wigan, WN7 3XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016076290822
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 574
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 May 2025.
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A574 in Warrington, 22 May 2025
12 m awayRef 2025070422133
Serious
Volvo S40 crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 20 November 2001
13 m awayRef 2001070106699
Serious
BMW M4 crash on the A574 in Warrington, 14 December 2018
29 m awayRef 2018070394074
Slight
Car crash on the A574 in Wigan, 5 October 1979
40 m awayRef 197906L002095
Slight
Honda C50LA crash on the A574 in Wigan, 26 April 1991
40 m awayRef 199106L124691
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A574 in Wigan, 6 August 1992
40 m awayRef 199206L214692
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 40, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2016076290822 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2016.