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Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 16 November 1989 at 08:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 08:40 on Thursday 16 November 1989. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Nov 1989
Thursday, 08:40
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64474, longitude -2.63952, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1989040CA1918
Council area
Chorley
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

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

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Other object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    41 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    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 1989040CA1918 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 1989.