B5074 crash in Cheshire East on 1 May 2025 at 14:23 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B5074 in Cheshire East at 14:23 on Thursday 1 May 2025. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2025
- Thursday, 14:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07346, longitude -2.51759, in the CW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nantwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nantwich North and West, Cheshire East, CW5 5DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025070364505
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5074
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2021.
Slight
Car crash on the B5074 in Cheshire East, 2 October 2021
1 m awayRef 2021070685007
Slight
Mazda RX8 crash on the B5074 in Cheshire East, 14 July 2014
4 m awayRef 2014074203372
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 25 November 1995
10 m awayRef 1995075C31953
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 30 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008070227304
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the B5074 in Cheshire East, 1 December 2011
10 m awayRef 2011070341835
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A51 in Cheshire East, 21 November 2003
10 m awayRef 2003070306769
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025070364505 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 2025.