A34 crash in Cheshire East on 27 May 2025 at 23:23 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on the A34 in Cheshire East at 23:23 on Tuesday 27 May 2025. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2025
- Tuesday, 23:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16821, longitude -2.2162, in the CW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Congleton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Congleton West, Cheshire East, CW12 1FR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025070436877
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2015.
Slight
Kia Sorento crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 7 August 2015
9 m awayRef 2015075231891
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 1 May 2016
37 m awayRef 2016076125608
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 12 April 1996
49 m awayRef 1996076C10525
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A54 in Cheshire East, 12 February 2004
49 m awayRef 2004070400697
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 3 October 2008
49 m awayRef 2008070299939
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A34 in Cheshire East, 3 April 2008
49 m awayRef 2008070102753
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025070436877 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.