B5391 crash in Cheshire East on 10 March 2020 at 04:16 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van crashed on the B5391 in Cheshire East at 04:16 on Tuesday 10 March 2020. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2020
- Tuesday, 04:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2874, longitude -2.46381, in the WA16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020070151017
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5391
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5391 in Cheshire West and Chester, 14 July 1994
43 m awayRef 1994074A31041
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5391 in Cheshire West and Chester, 27 February 1996
57 m awayRef 1996076A30275
Serious
Renault Kangoo crash on the B5391 in Cheshire West and Chester, 1 September 2005
71 m awayRef 2005070503827
Serious
Yamaha WR 125 crash on the B5391 in Cheshire West and Chester, 25 July 2017
126 m awayRef 2017077237227
Slight
Car crash on the B5391 in Cheshire East, 25 July 1982
177 m awayRef 1982072C20879
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B5391 in Cheshire East, 4 August 1993
213 m awayRef 1993073C21120
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2020070151017 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 2020.