C road crash in Halton WA7 on 23 December 2017 at 11:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 11:00 on Saturday 23 December 2017. The 70-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33004, longitude -2.70229, in the WA7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgewater, Halton, WA7 2SS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017077411657
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 553
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2015.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 18 December 2015
2 m awayRef 2015075377051
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 10 June 2019
4 m awayRef 2019070300826
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 9 July 2004
5 m awayRef 2004070403308
Serious
Ford Ecosport crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 31 May 2016
5 m awayRef 2016076159597
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the B5155 in Halton, 9 September 2017
6 m awayRef 2017077291899
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 14 December 1998
8 m awayRef 1998078B41859
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2017077411657 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 2017.