Unclassified road crash in Trafford WA15 on 31 March 2024 at 05:15 involving a BMW M2
A BMW M2 crashed on an unclassified road in Trafford at 05:15 on Sunday 31 March 2024. A 29-year-old female passenger, a 27-year-old male passenger and a 23-year-old female passenger were 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
- 31 Mar 2024
- Sunday, 05:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW M2
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38, longitude -2.31148, in the WA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hale.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024061426762
- Council area
- Trafford
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 11 December 1998
7 m awayRef 199806M315899
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 12 May 2006
11 m awayRef 200606M050044
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 12 January 2001
43 m awayRef 200106M007037
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 10 December 1988
86 m awayRef 198806M262488
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 20 October 1990
86 m awayRef 199006M225790
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 25 December 1986
86 m awayRef 198606M263686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW M2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2024061426762 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Trafford road accident statistics for 2024.