Unclassified road crash in Wigan WN5 on 10 July 2011 at 00:01 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wigan at 00:01 on Sunday 10 July 2011. A 23-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2011
- Sunday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.53965, longitude -2.66053, in the WN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wigan. It is one of the crashes that make up the Douglas, Wigan, WN5 9HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wigan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201106L048458
- Council area
- Wigan
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 65 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 December 2014.
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201106L048458 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wigan road accident statistics for 2011.