B5309 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 18 March 2019 at 12:30 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat, an Audi A1 and a car were involved in a crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester at 12:30 on Monday 18 March 2019. The 74-year-old male driver of the Audi A1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2019
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Passat and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20482, longitude -2.44757, in the CW10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019070118137
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5309
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 2022.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester, 25 October 2022
1 m awayRef 2022070785981
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester, 12 June 1992
30 m awayRef 1992072A30827
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester, 13 March 2011
37 m awayRef 2011070067839
Fatal
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester, 12 August 2013
104 m awayRef 2013073228235
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester, 9 July 1999
104 m awayRef 1999079A31077
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5309 in Cheshire West and Chester, 1 June 1982
130 m awayRef 1982072E10619
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A1)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019070118137 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 2019.