C road crash in Halton WA8 on 7 September 1997 at 16:15 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Halton at 16:15 on Sunday 7 September 1997. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 1997
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36335, longitude -2.74049, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997077B11259
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Halton, 4 May 2010
10 m awayRef 2010070125620
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Halton, 8 April 1994
14 m awayRef 1994074B10447
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Halton, 4 September 1993
20 m awayRef 1993073B11141
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Halton, 7 April 1983
28 m awayRef 1983073D10442
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Halton, 5 February 1988
28 m awayRef 1988078D10197
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on a C road in Halton, 24 June 2007
28 m awayRef 2007070207956
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- 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 1997077B11259 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 1997.