Unclassified road crash in West Lancashire WN8 on 29 October 2008 at 08:50 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in West Lancashire at 08:50 on Wednesday 29 October 2008. A 21-year-old male 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
- 29 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.59679, longitude -2.76725, in the WN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Parbold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rural North East, West Lancashire, WN8 7HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804CJ08091
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B5246 in West Lancashire, 14 June 1988
20 m awayRef 1988040CB0894
Slight
Car crash on the B5246 in West Lancashire, 11 September 1986
20 m awayRef 1986040CB1226
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5246 in West Lancashire, 11 August 2011
38 m awayRef 201104CJ11056
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 19 June 2006
45 m awayRef 200604CJ06056
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5246 in West Lancashire, 21 December 2009
50 m awayRef 200904CJ09084
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B5246 in West Lancashire, 8 September 1991
51 m awayRef 1991040CB1476
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200804CJ08091 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2008.