C road crash in Warrington WA2 on 20 December 2016 at 21:10 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Warrington at 21:10 on Tuesday 20 December 2016. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting 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, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4126, longitude -2.59528, in the WA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orford, Warrington, WA2 9PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016076394456
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1996.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 27 January 1996
1 m awayRef 1996076B20105
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 4 January 2002
10 m awayRef 2002070200118
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 17 July 1993
10 m awayRef 1993073B20899
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 9 August 2010
13 m awayRef 2010070231782
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 3 October 1989
31 m awayRef 1989079D21437
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 3 June 1991
31 m awayRef 1991071B20819
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2016076394456 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.