A59 crash in West Lancashire on 5 December 2003 at 16:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A59 in West Lancashire at 16:30 on Friday 5 December 2003. A 66-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2003
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.60339, longitude -2.84218, in the L40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burscough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burscough Bridge & Rufford, West Lancashire, L40 5SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304C104403
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 4 September 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040CH1181
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 26 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040KL0574
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 11 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200304C087703
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 16 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040CH1383
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 9 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040CH1275
Slight
Peugeot 504 crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 13 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200004C031700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200304C104403 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2003.