Unclassified road crash in Rochdale OL11 on 2 November 2011 at 17:10 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rochdale at 17:10 on Wednesday 2 November 2011. A 40-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2011
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.60953, longitude -2.1603, in the OL11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rochdale.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201106P053203
- Council area
- Rochdale
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201106P053203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochdale road accident statistics for 2011.