A34 crash in Cheshire East on 18 December 2019 at 16:45 involving a Hyundai Santa Fe
A car and a Hyundai Santa Fe were involved in a crash on the A34 in Cheshire East at 16:45 on Wednesday 18 December 2019. The 45-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Santa Fe was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2019
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Hyundai Santa Fe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34813, longitude -2.2012, in the SK9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019070739675
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2010.
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 19 October 2010
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 19 February 2022
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Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 17 October 2017
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Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 1 September 2021
7 m awayRef 2021070609220
Slight
Honda crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 6 May 2020
8 m awayRef 2020070262090
Fatal
Audi RS3 crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 15 September 2020
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Santa Fe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Santa Fe)
- 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 2019070739675 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2019.