Serious C road crash in Knowsley L32 on 18 November 2002 at 08:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on a C road in Knowsley at 08:20 on Monday 18 November 2002. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2002
- Monday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4761, longitude -2.8933, in the L32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitefield, Knowsley, L32 8RX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200205CH00180
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 200205CH00180 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2002.