Serious C road crash in Warrington WA2 on 24 December 1994 at 00:01 involving an Austin Montego
An Austin Montego hit a pedestrian on a C road in Warrington at 00:01 on Saturday 24 December 1994. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1994
- Saturday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39655, longitude -2.59038, in the WA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994074B21877
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Warrington, 10 August 2010
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Austin Montego)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1994074B21877 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.