Unclassified road crash in Southampton SO16 on 22 March 2009 at 18:00 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Southampton at 18:00 on Sunday 22 March 2009. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2009
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9402, longitude -1.39721, in the SO16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swaythling, Southampton, SO17 3TF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009440125138
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 9 April 1989
36 m awayRef 1989440WP0182
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 15 April 1985
36 m awayRef 1985440WP0167
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 14 December 1979
54 m awayRef 1979440FP0551
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 5 August 1985
54 m awayRef 1985440WP0392
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 20 March 1981
54 m awayRef 1981440FP0104
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 4 June 1992
54 m awayRef 1992440WP0255
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2009440125138 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2009.