Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA1 on 15 July 2006 at 00:39 involving a Fiat Doblo taxi
A Fiat Doblo taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 00:39 on Saturday 15 July 2006. A 27-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, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2006
- Saturday, 00:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0483, longitude -2.79219, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Lancaster, LA1 1NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604BA06147
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2007.
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 9 August 2007
10 m awayRef 200704BA07159
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 22 August 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040BA1099
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 30 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200404B062104
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 14 January 2011
16 m awayRef 201104BA11006
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 31 August 1983
41 m awayRef 1983040BA1162
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 19 December 2002
51 m awayRef 200204B080102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- 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 200604BA06147 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 2006.