A5480 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 1 October 2018 at 07:06 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A5480 in Cheshire West and Chester at 07:06 on Monday 1 October 2018. The 40-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2018
- Monday, 07:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2007, longitude -2.90501, in the CH1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chester City & the Garden Quarter, Cheshire West and Chester, CH1 4AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018070307004
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5480
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2019.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A5480 in Cheshire West and Chester, 2 April 2019
4 m awayRef 2019070150932
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the A5480 in Cheshire West and Chester, 24 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025070702864
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5480 in Cheshire West and Chester, 6 January 2020
4 m awayRef 2020070011555
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on a C road in Cheshire West and Chester, 23 September 2019
4 m awayRef 2019070548257
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5480 in Cheshire West and Chester, 12 November 2024
8 m awayRef 2024070960146
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A5480 in Cheshire West and Chester, 14 July 2023
9 m awayRef 2023070633280
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018070307004 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 2018.