Serious A536 crash in Cheshire East on 21 October 2020 at 06:14 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic, a Mazda 5 and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on the A536 in Cheshire East at 06:14 on Wednesday 21 October 2020. The 21-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic and the 50-year-old male driver of the Mazda 5 were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2020
- Wednesday, 06:14
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda Civic and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.20773, longitude -2.18538, in the SK11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020070637451
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 536
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 September 1997.
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A536 in Cheshire East, 24 September 1997
26 m awayRef 1997077C11661
Slight
Scooter crash on the A536 in Cheshire East, 31 October 1989
67 m awayRef 1989079C11197
Slight
Car crash on the A536 in Cheshire East, 5 September 1983
67 m awayRef 1983073C11061
Serious
Audi TT crash on the A536 in Cheshire East, 22 July 2007
86 m awayRef 2007070241922
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A536 in Cheshire East, 7 March 2019
94 m awayRef 2019070096112
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A536 in Cheshire East, 22 February 2023
97 m awayRef 2023070156252
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 5)
- 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 2020070637451 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.