Serious A538 crash in Cheshire East on 26 May 2010 at 12:41 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A538 in Cheshire East at 12:41 on Wednesday 26 May 2010. A 48-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 26 May 2010
- Wednesday, 12:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32586, longitude -2.23103, in the SK9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wilmslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wilmslow East, Cheshire East, SK9 1HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010070149068
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 538
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 April 2016.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 1 April 2016
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Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 15 October 2025
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Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 5 September 2025
9 m awayRef 2025070736951
Serious
Skoda Estelle crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 7 October 1996
10 m awayRef 1996076C21582
Serious
Car crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 27 March 2008
10 m awayRef 2008070102903
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A538 in Cheshire East, 3 February 2011
10 m awayRef 2011070030260
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- On refuge, central island or central reservation
- 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 2010070149068 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2010.