B6536 crash in Bolton on 17 December 2009 at 03:32 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B6536 in Bolton at 03:32 on Thursday 17 December 2009. All six casualties were slightly injured. One of them was a pedestrian.
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
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2009
- Thursday, 03:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 6
- 6 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.57414, longitude -2.42342, in the BL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bolton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queens Park & Central, Bolton, BL1 1SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bolton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200906K025671
- Council area
- Bolton
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6536
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 575
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
- 46%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 54%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6536 in Bolton, 15 January 2015
10 m awayRef 201506K096257
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A6058 in Bolton, 18 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199806K233298
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A6058 in Bolton, 5 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199706K151297
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bolton, 18 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200506K040926
Slight
Dennis crash on the B6536 in Bolton, 29 March 2001
14 m awayRef 200106K009460
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the A6058 in Bolton, 4 April 1997
14 m awayRef 199706K001997
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (6)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 6: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 200906K025671 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolton road accident statistics for 2009.