Unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 3 July 1985 at 22:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Halton at 22:30 on Wednesday 3 July 1985. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 1985
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35601, longitude -2.73616, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985075D10893
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 11 September 1992
40 m awayRef 1992072B11130
Slight
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Slight
Hyundai Matrix crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 23 February 2007
61 m awayRef 2007070700742
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 22 February 2001
67 m awayRef 2001070101267
Slight
Leyland National crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 16 October 1996
91 m awayRef 1996076B11522
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 10 November 2005
95 m awayRef 2005070505268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1985075D10893 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 1985.