Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 10 March 2011 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 15:15 on Thursday 10 March 2011. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2011
- Thursday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05726, longitude -2.88522, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heysham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Lancaster, LA3 3QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104BB11030
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 1979.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 1 January 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040BG0002
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 March 2008
21 m awayRef 200804BB08039
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 28 April 2005
22 m awayRef 200504B023405
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 28 December 2003
27 m awayRef 200304B081203
Serious
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 1 September 1995
27 m awayRef 199504B039495
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 21 May 1981
28 m awayRef 1981040BG0603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201104BB11030 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 2011.