Serious unclassified road crash in Warwick CV32 on 24 December 1998 at 19:20 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Warwick at 19:20 on Thursday 24 December 1998. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30863, longitude -1.52723, in the CV32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Leamington Spa.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998239802278
- Council area
- Warwick
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1998239802278 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warwick road accident statistics for 1998.