A533 crash in Cheshire East on 7 October 1997 at 20:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A533 in Cheshire East at 20:00 on Tuesday 7 October 1997. An 11-year-old female 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
- 7 Oct 1997
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.19071, longitude -2.44357, in the CW10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middlewich.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997077A41756
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 533
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 21 September 2010.
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A533 in Cheshire East, 21 September 2010
At the same spotRef 2010070277169
Slight
Van crash on the A533 in Cheshire East, 3 November 2006
At the same spotRef 2006070604729
Slight
Car crash on the A533 in Cheshire East, 14 December 2023
8 m awayRef 2023071273421
Slight
Car crash on the A533 in Cheshire East, 24 August 2015
9 m awayRef 2015075250503
Slight
Van crash on the A533 in Cheshire East, 25 June 2016
10 m awayRef 2016076189442
Fatal
Hyundai i30 crash on the A533 in Cheshire East, 16 December 2021
19 m awayRef 2021070869484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 1997077A41756 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 1997.