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A581 crash in Chorley on 11 October 2004 at 08:24 involving a Ford Fiesta

A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A581 in Chorley at 08:24 on Monday 11 October 2004. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly 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
Slight
Date
11 Oct 2004
Monday, 08:24
Vehicles
1
Ford Fiesta
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66076, longitude -2.66823, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buckshaw Village and Euxton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Euxton, Chorley, PR7 6NT area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Chorley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200404C092804
Council area
Chorley
Police force
Lancashire
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
581
Road type
Single 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
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
22%
Estimated chance it was slight
78%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    1,119 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    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 200404C092804 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2004.