Serious unclassified road crash in Rushmoor GU14 on 8 December 2006 at 15:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rushmoor at 15:30 on Friday 8 December 2006. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2006
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29894, longitude -0.77803, in the GU14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Farnborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cove and Southwood, Rushmoor, GU14 0JQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rushmoor
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006440503832
- Council area
- Rushmoor
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
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
- 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
- 90%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 10%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2014.
Slight
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 8 December 2014
17 m awayRef 2014440437853
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 15 February 2000
20 m awayRef 2000440AA0254
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 20 November 2015
21 m awayRef 2015440403948
Slight
MBK Thunder crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 17 October 2003
41 m awayRef 2003440AA1385
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 27 February 2023
47 m awayRef 2023440083798
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rushmoor, 18 January 2002
50 m awayRef 2002440AA0083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2006440503832 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 2006.