A51 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 20 December 2025 at 13:56 involving a Toyota Verso
A Toyota Verso and an Audi A1 were involved in a crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester at 13:56 on Saturday 20 December 2025. The 23-year-old female driver of the Audi A1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 13:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Verso and Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19596, longitude -2.83566, in the CH3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Littleton.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire West and Chester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025071037411
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 51
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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 19 August 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester, 19 August 2016
4 m awayRef 2016076253035
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester, 6 May 2024
37 m awayRef 2024070415060
Slight
Peugeot 807 crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester, 9 September 2018
38 m awayRef 2018070282085
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester, 31 August 1999
52 m awayRef 1999079A11369
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester, 18 June 1995
52 m awayRef 1995075A10845
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A51 in Cheshire West and Chester, 18 March 2005
61 m awayRef 2005070501194
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Verso
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A1)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025071037411 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 2025.