Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 1 October 2010 at 18:00 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 18:00 on Friday 1 October 2010. A 17-year-old female pedestrian and a 20-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2010
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06487, longitude -2.87823, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Lancaster, LA3 1TE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004BB10192
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1980.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 December 1980
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 11 July 1979
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Serious
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 16 March 2008
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MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 19 December 2011
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Ford Escort crash on the B5274 in Lancaster, 1 May 2011
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201004BB10192 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 2010.