A62 crash in Manchester on 6 January 2011 at 17:05 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica hit a pedestrian on the A62 in Manchester at 17:05 on Thursday 6 January 2011. A 68-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 6 Jan 2011
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49399, longitude -2.21603, in the M40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harpurhey, Manchester, M40 8LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201106A040952
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 62
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A62 in Manchester, 30 September 2014
3 m awayRef 201406A092138
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A62 in Manchester, 21 June 2008
4 m awayRef 200806A097340
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 7 February 2001
4 m awayRef 200106A008940
Serious
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A62 in Manchester, 20 November 2004
4 m awayRef 200406A914850
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A62 in Manchester, 15 May 2002
4 m awayRef 200206A012338
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A62 in Manchester, 1 March 2009
4 m awayRef 200906A011155
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Celica)
- 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 201106A040952 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 2011.