Serious A5079 crash in Manchester on 23 September 2010 at 16:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A5079 in Manchester at 16:05 on Thursday 23 September 2010. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Sep 2010
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44628, longitude -2.19781, in the M19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 2EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201006B036585
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5079
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2014.
Slight
Piaggio Xevo crash on the A5079 in Manchester, 7 October 2014
12 m awayRef 201406E092124
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5079 in Manchester, 12 August 2000
22 m awayRef 200006C011635
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A5079 in Manchester, 28 September 2001
22 m awayRef 200106C016145
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A5079 in Manchester, 7 December 2005
30 m awayRef 200506B040125
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Manchester, 6 May 2000
30 m awayRef 200006C010680
Serious
Car crash on the A5079 in Manchester, 21 September 2024
30 m awayRef 2024061494605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201006B036585 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2010.