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A970 crash in Winchester on 26 April 1993 at 15:10 involving a Volvo 740

A Volvo 740 hit a pedestrian on the A970 in Winchester at 15:10 on Monday 26 April 1993. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Apr 1993
Monday, 15:10
Vehicles
1
Volvo 740
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16718, longitude -1.32202, in the SO21 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1993910020114
Council area
Winchester
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
970
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 740

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    49 years
    Engine capacity
    1,986 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    5 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)

    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 1993910020114 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 1993.