Unclassified road crash in Cheshire East CW12 on 4 December 1998 at 08:40 involving a Freight Rover van
A Freight Rover van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cheshire East at 08:40 on Friday 4 December 1998. A 39-year-old female 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
- 4 Dec 1998
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Freight Rover
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.16187, longitude -2.20995, in the CW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Congleton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998078A42161
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- 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
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Freight Rover
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Engine capacity
- 1,770 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Freight Rover)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 1998078A42161 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 1998.