A56 crash in Warrington on 25 June 2018 at 21:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A56 in Warrington at 21:45 on Monday 25 June 2018. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 2018
- Monday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36825, longitude -2.59846, in the WA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018070189672
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A56 in Warrington, 8 June 1992
6 m awayRef 1992072B20705
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A56 in Warrington, 8 October 1993
8 m awayRef 1993073B21320
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A56 in Warrington, 29 September 2000
21 m awayRef 2000070011582
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A56 in Warrington, 27 January 1999
22 m awayRef 1999079B20081
Slight
Kia Mentor crash on the A56 in Warrington, 7 November 1999
35 m awayRef 1999079B21666
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A56 in Warrington, 3 April 1996
36 m awayRef 1996076B20438
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018070189672 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.