Serious A5061 crash in Warrington on 24 July 1994 at 17:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the A5061 in Warrington at 17:45 on Sunday 24 July 1994. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 1994
- Sunday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38633, longitude -2.60226, in the WA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994074B20953
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 1993.
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Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A57 in Warrington, 25 February 1995
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 1994074B20953 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1994.