C road crash in Warrington WA3 on 23 December 2017 at 10:20 involving a Volvo bus
A car and a Volvo bus were involved in a crash on a C road in Warrington at 10:20 on Saturday 23 December 2017. The 33-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42174, longitude -2.54354, in the WA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poulton North, Warrington, WA2 0EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017077411617
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2000.
Slight
Yamaha DT 125 R crash on a C road in Warrington, 11 April 2000
30 m awayRef 2000070002377
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 18 November 2006
58 m awayRef 2006070604619
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Warrington, 23 July 1990
76 m awayRef 1990070D21022
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Warrington, 6 November 2013
80 m awayRef 2013073317142
Serious
Triumph crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 24 November 1996
84 m awayRef 1996076B21825
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Warrington, 14 April 1998
86 m awayRef 1998078B20540
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2017077411617 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 2017.