Serious unclassified road crash in Trafford M41 on 24 December 1997 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Trafford at 19:00 on Wednesday 24 December 1997. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1997
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44247, longitude -2.36835, in the M41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Urmston.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199706M1306D7
- Council area
- Trafford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5213
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1998.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B5219 in Trafford, 14 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199806M244698
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5213 in Trafford, 25 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199806M187898
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5213 in Trafford, 5 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200006M005509
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the B5213 in Trafford, 20 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200306M010984
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5213 in Trafford, 28 April 2018
29 m awayRef 201806M143358
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Trafford, 23 November 2025
38 m awayRef 2025061672428
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199706M1306D7 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Trafford road accident statistics for 1997.