Serious unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 23 May 1997 at 19:40 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Halton at 19:40 on Friday 23 May 1997. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 1997
- Friday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34224, longitude -2.73787, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997077B40691
- 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
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The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2014.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 1997077B40691 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.