Serious C road crash in Lancaster LA1 on 29 December 2009 at 10:45 involving a Fiat Doblo
A Fiat Doblo hit a pedestrian on a C road in Lancaster at 10:45 on Tuesday 29 December 2009. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05912, longitude -2.80065, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Scale Hall, Lancaster, LA1 2QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904BA09257
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2016.
Slight
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10 m awayRef 201604WB16402
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 31 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025041622814
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 13 February 1982
20 m awayRef 1982040BA0169
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 16 September 2006
32 m awayRef 200604BA06178
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 26 August 1983
32 m awayRef 1983040BA1113
Serious
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 27 September 1997
36 m awayRef 199704B064897
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200904BA09257 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 2009.