Serious B5212 crash in Warrington on 24 April 2018 at 17:13 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5212 in Warrington at 17:13 on Tuesday 24 April 2018. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 2018
- Tuesday, 17:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43444, longitude -2.46266, in the WA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018070115084
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1999.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 13 May 1999
55 m awayRef 1999079B20661
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 7 July 2001
92 m awayRef 2001070103958
Slight
Honda crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 11 January 1990
93 m awayRef 1990070D20046
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 10 April 2003
93 m awayRef 2003070301995
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 10 August 2009
98 m awayRef 2009070253165
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5212 in Warrington, 17 August 2013
99 m awayRef 2013073233433
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018070115084 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 2018.