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Serious unclassified road crash in Knowsley L35 on 14 January 1986 at 17:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 17:50 on Tuesday 14 January 1986. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
14 Jan 1986
Tuesday, 17:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42087, longitude -2.79837, in the L35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prescot.

Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198605E300049
Council area
Knowsley
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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 with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198605E300049 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 1986.