Serious A6 crash in Lancaster on 15 November 2008 at 19:18 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on the A6 in Lancaster at 19:18 on Saturday 15 November 2008. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and a 24-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2008
- Saturday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.04867, longitude -2.8032, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804BA08177
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 27 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040BA1707
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 13 February 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040BA0211
Slight
Van crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 22 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199404B103594
Slight
MAN crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 5 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200904BA09001
Serious
Volvo crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 4 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200804BA08127
Serious
Lorry crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 5 July 2023
2 m awayRef 2023041326735
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200804BA08177 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 2008.