Unclassified road crash in Manchester M14 on 10 September 2003 at 15:55 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Manchester at 15:55 on Wednesday 10 September 2003. A 2-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2003
- Wednesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Leyland DAF FA 45
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44827, longitude -2.23922, in the M14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moss Side, Manchester, M14 7WR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200306C023646
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2013.
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Leyland DAF FA 45
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 2 (Leyland DAF FA 45)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200306C023646 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2003.