Unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 20 February 1996 at 17:00 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Halton at 17:00 on Tuesday 20 February 1996. A 7-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
- 20 Feb 1996
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37014, longitude -2.7615, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076B10217
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1982.
Slight
Bus crash on the B5178 in Halton, 24 June 1982
32 m awayRef 1982072D10767
Serious
Car crash on the B5178 in Halton, 7 July 1989
32 m awayRef 1989079D10947
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5178 in Halton, 14 May 1994
45 m awayRef 1994074B10606
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Halton, 23 May 2024
55 m awayRef 2024070464610
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5178 in Halton, 17 February 2000
58 m awayRef 2000070001404
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B5178 in Halton, 12 July 2015
64 m awayRef 2015075201799
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
- 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 1996076B10217 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 1996.