Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR6 on 26 May 2012 at 17:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 17:35 on Saturday 26 May 2012. A 9-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
- 26 May 2012
- Saturday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65111, longitude -2.62357, in the PR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204CA12087
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 22 March 2016
2 m awayRef 201604SC16116
Serious
Mercedes Eqa Class crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 15 January 2025
6 m awayRef 2025041542087
Slight
Car crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 12 November 1980
8 m awayRef 1980040JA1612
Slight
Van crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 6 July 1994
13 m awayRef 199404C103594
Serious
Car crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 12 September 1987
18 m awayRef 1987040CA1346
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 17 November 2004
18 m awayRef 200404C117904
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201204CA12087 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2012.