C road crash in Halton WA7 on 12 October 2018 at 10:30 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 10:30 on Friday 12 October 2018. The 35-year-old female driver of the Ford C-Max and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Audi A4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2018
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford C-Max and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33851, longitude -2.7411, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mersey & Weston, Halton, WA7 5AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018070319952
- Council area
- Halton
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a fatal crash on 5 January 2019.
Fatal
Mitsubishi Colt crash on a C road in Halton, 5 January 2019
16 m awayRef 2019070004684
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Halton, 24 April 2009
19 m awayRef 2009070126074
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Halton, 5 February 2004
20 m awayRef 2004070400560
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 9 November 2020
59 m awayRef 2020070683143
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 14 November 2005
61 m awayRef 2005070505092
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Halton, 8 January 2001
61 m awayRef 2001070100326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford C-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018070319952 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 2018.