A57 crash in Warrington on 30 October 2016 at 18:03 involving a Ford S-Max
A Ford S-Max and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A57 in Warrington at 18:03 on Sunday 30 October 2016. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2016
- Sunday, 18:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford S-Max and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4177, longitude -2.45282, in the WA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rixton and Woolston, Warrington, WA3 6HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016076337496
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5212
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 2001.
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A57 in Warrington, 19 February 2001
4 m awayRef 2001070101283
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in Warrington, 4 September 2015
6 m awayRef 2015075263487
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A57 in Warrington, 9 July 1980
8 m awayRef 1980070D21029
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A57 in Warrington, 25 August 2007
8 m awayRef 2007070285086
Serious
Car crash on the A57 in Warrington, 17 August 1986
8 m awayRef 1986076D21050
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A57 in Warrington, 7 November 1991
8 m awayRef 1991071B31545
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016076337496 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.