Unclassified road crash in Cheshire East CW11 on 4 August 2025 at 11:49 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mercedes Sprinter were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East at 11:49 on Monday 4 August 2025. A 44-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes Sprinter 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
- 4 Aug 2025
- Monday, 11:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.146, longitude -2.39366, in the CW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Elworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sandbach Elworth, Cheshire East, CW11 3GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025070647606
- 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
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5079
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2019.
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 8 May 2019
4 m awayRef 2019070229162
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East, 17 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003070302751
Serious
MG Metro crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East, 4 March 1994
28 m awayRef 1994074C30332
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East, 8 April 1987
66 m awayRef 1987077B20429
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 23 June 1987
66 m awayRef 1987077B20770
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the B5079 in Cheshire East, 13 January 2000
89 m awayRef 2000070000880
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2025070647606 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.