B5461 crash in Salford on 29 October 2017 at 22:50 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on the B5461 in Salford at 22:50 on Sunday 29 October 2017. The 26-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2017
- Sunday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47891, longitude -2.26217, in the M5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Salford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ordsall, Salford, M5 4YU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Salford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201706F036709
- Council area
- Salford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1999.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201706F036709 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Salford road accident statistics for 2017.