Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 3 August 2003 at 03:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 03:00 on Sunday 3 August 2003. A 52-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.04073, longitude -2.89635, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heysham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heysham South, Lancaster, LA3 2TN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304B046803
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 January 2011.
Serious
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Slight
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Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 15 August 2006
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Slight
Bus crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 4 December 1979
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 1 August 1990
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Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 2 March 2014
62 m awayRef 201404BB14034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200304B046803 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2003.