Unclassified road crash in Wigan WN2 on 1 February 2021 at 12:10 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wigan at 12:10 on Monday 1 February 2021. The 35-year-old male driver of the car, the 57-year-old male driver of the other vehicle and a 54-year-old female passenger in the other vehicle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2021
- Monday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.56453, longitude -2.57777, in the WN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aspull.
Map of where the crash happened in Wigan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202106L079761
- Council area
- Wigan
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 44%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 56%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2019.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5239 in Wigan, 29 October 2019
28 m awayRef 201906L157725
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5239 in Wigan, 16 January 1995
30 m awayRef 199506L239495
Slight
Car crash on the B5239 in Wigan, 16 November 1988
30 m awayRef 198806L344788
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5239 in Wigan, 25 February 1990
30 m awayRef 199006L070190
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B5239 in Wigan, 23 September 1992
30 m awayRef 199206L260192
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5239 in Wigan, 17 August 2004
41 m awayRef 200406L908105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 202106L079761 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wigan road accident statistics for 2021.