A50 crash in Cheshire East on 2 May 2023 at 19:00 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on the A50 in Cheshire East at 19:00 on Tuesday 2 May 2023. The 35-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2023
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Ceed and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30519, longitude -2.3768, in the WA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Knutsford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 6DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023070370899
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2020.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 11 November 2020
4 m awayRef 2020070684972
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 16 August 2004
8 m awayRef 2004070404058
Slight
Rover 75 crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 16 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006070605130
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 19 November 2017
12 m awayRef 2017077373308
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 9 October 2014
13 m awayRef 2014074299719
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 2 September 1999
16 m awayRef 1999079C21417
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Prius)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023070370899 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 2023.