Serious B5071 crash in Cheshire East on 11 December 2025 at 10:05 involving a Peugeot 2008
A Peugeot 2008, a Vauxhall Crossland and a Mercedes GLC Class were involved in a crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East at 10:05 on Thursday 11 December 2025. A 3-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Crossland was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 2008 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06218, longitude -2.44736, in the CW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shavington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shavington, Cheshire East, CW2 5BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025071010231
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5071
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 14 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East, 14 May 1998
13 m awayRef 1998078C30806
Slight
Car crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East, 8 April 2001
17 m awayRef 2001070102230
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East, 15 October 1999
17 m awayRef 1999079C31719
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East, 26 June 2002
21 m awayRef 2002070203345
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East, 12 June 2005
21 m awayRef 2005070502565
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5071 in Cheshire East, 16 January 1997
30 m awayRef 1997077C30067
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Crossland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Mercedes GLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Crossland)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2025071010231 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.