A5181 crash in Trafford on 7 October 2017 at 14:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class, a Ford Focus and a Nissan NV200 were involved in a crash on the A5181 in Trafford at 14:30 on Saturday 7 October 2017. A 44-year-old female passenger in the Nissan NV200 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2017
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes C Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44341, longitude -2.31299, in the M32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stretford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stretford & Humphrey Park, Trafford, M32 0AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Trafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201706M035818
- Council area
- Trafford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5181
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2024.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 16 November 2024
2 m awayRef 2024061521408
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 18 March 2020
2 m awayRef 202006M170226
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 24 February 2020
3 m awayRef 202006M168950
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 25 April 2011
5 m awayRef 201106M045494
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 17 August 2005
5 m awayRef 200506M032561
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A5181 in Trafford, 2 October 2015
5 m awayRef 201506M006508
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Nissan NV200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan NV200)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201706M035818 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Trafford road accident statistics for 2017.