Unclassified road crash in Halton WA7 on 4 July 1998 at 01:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Halton at 01:00 on Saturday 4 July 1998. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34226, longitude -2.73502, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998078B40987
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 1996.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 7 June 1996
22 m awayRef 1996076B40850
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Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 17 May 2023
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Serious
Ford C-Max crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 3 September 2012
42 m awayRef 2012070252607
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 22 January 2000
42 m awayRef 2000070000825
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 19 May 1984
50 m awayRef 1984074E20568
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 22 September 1984
50 m awayRef 1984074E21171
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 1998078B40987 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 1998.