A34 crash in Cheshire East on 2 December 2017 at 18:20 involving a Peugeot 308
A Peugeot 308 and a Vauxhall Vivaro van were involved in a crash on the A34 in Cheshire East at 18:20 on Saturday 2 December 2017. The 45-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 308 and the 53-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vivaro van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 308 and Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10191, longitude -2.25161, in the ST7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scholar Green.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017077388340
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 23 November 2009
3 m awayRef 2009070369568
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 23 April 2008
13 m awayRef 2008070119699
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in Cheshire East, 15 December 2022
14 m awayRef 2022070922661
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 4 December 1986
51 m awayRef 1986076B21730
Serious
Lorry crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 5 January 1982
51 m awayRef 1982072B20017
Slight
Bus crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 9 October 1984
51 m awayRef 1984074B21371
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 308)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017077388340 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2017.