Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 2 March 2020 at 14:19 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 14:19 on Monday 2 March 2020. The 51-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2020
- Monday, 14:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3209, longitude -2.68386, in the WA7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norton South & Preston Brook, Halton, WA7 6BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020070134396
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2016.
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 3 March 2016
1 m awayRef 2016076063114
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 9 December 1994
4 m awayRef 1994074B41773
Serious
Kawasaki KLX125 crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 21 May 2017
4 m awayRef 2017077157778
Slight
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 19 July 1997
4 m awayRef 1997077B40970
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 11 November 1999
4 m awayRef 1999079B41731
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 12 December 1998
4 m awayRef 1998078B41917
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020070134396 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 2020.