Serious unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 30 November 2023 at 22:14 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A Vauxhall Mokka and a Scania lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Halton at 22:14 on Thursday 30 November 2023. The 66-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Mokka was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2023
- Thursday, 22:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Mokka and Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35283, longitude -2.65238, in the WA7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023071210987
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- 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
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2006.
Slight
HGV crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 2 July 2006
13 m awayRef 2006070602568
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 20 January 2011
146 m awayRef 2011070017372
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Halton, 5 February 2003
170 m awayRef 2003070300762
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 8 January 2014
265 m awayRef 2014074006621
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 20 January 2003
305 m awayRef 2003070300439
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Halton, 2 September 1984
340 m awayRef 1984074E21043
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,742 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Mokka)
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 2023071210987 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 2023.