Serious A574 crash in Warrington on 4 October 1998 at 16:25 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on the A574 in Warrington at 16:25 on Sunday 4 October 1998. A 10-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
- 4 Oct 1998
- Sunday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41318, longitude -2.60701, in the WA5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998078B21470
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 574
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2000.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A574 in Warrington, 26 February 2000
10 m awayRef 2000070001567
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A574 in Warrington, 6 April 1997
20 m awayRef 1997077B20442
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A574 in Warrington, 4 July 2013
52 m awayRef 2013073183707
Slight
Car crash on the A574 in Warrington, 22 November 1988
54 m awayRef 1988078D21633
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A574 in Warrington, 19 December 1990
54 m awayRef 1990070D21975
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 11 July 1996
72 m awayRef 1996076B20969
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1998078B21470 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1998.