Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 12 July 2007 at 17:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 17:00 on Thursday 12 July 2007. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2007
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64439, longitude -2.63696, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley South West, Chorley, PR7 2JP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704CA07070
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2016.
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Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 8 January 2010
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Slight
Volvo crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 5 May 2006
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Fiat Ulysse crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 1 June 2012
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 14 November 2010
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 12 November 2000
14 m awayRef 200004C096900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- 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 200704CA07070 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 2007.