Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 18 January 1997 at 17:48 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 17:48 on Saturday 18 January 1997. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65242, longitude -2.63238, 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
- 199704C001897
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 20 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 20 December 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040JA2027
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in Chorley, 7 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040JA0730
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 2 August 2012
12 m awayRef 201204CA12145
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 20 December 1982
14 m awayRef 1982040JA1848
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 6 September 1982
20 m awayRef 1982040JA1191
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 26 February 1981
20 m awayRef 1981040JA0250
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 199704C001897 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 1997.