Unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 13 November 2022 at 18:50 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Hyundai i20 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 18:50 on Sunday 13 November 2022. The 28-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i20 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2022
- Sunday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Hyundai i20
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3734, longitude -2.76162, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Halton, WA8 8SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022070833591
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1996.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 7 February 1996
44 m awayRef 1996076B10163
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 8 August 1980
55 m awayRef 1980070D11178
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 26 March 1989
58 m awayRef 1989079D10441
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 27 January 1991
58 m awayRef 1991071B10147
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 22 July 1988
58 m awayRef 1988078D11056
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 7 June 1993
135 m awayRef 1993073B10702
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i20
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai i20)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022070833591 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 2022.