Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 5 July 2012 at 15:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 15:20 on Thursday 5 July 2012. A 12-year-old female 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
- 5 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62505, longitude -2.65885, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coppull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coppull, Chorley, PR7 5AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204CA12119
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 2009.
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 9 September 2009
4 m awayRef 200904CC09080
Fatal
Hyundai Stellar crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 11 November 1990
4 m awayRef 1990040CF1979
Slight
Car crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 24 April 2024
4 m awayRef 2024041435492
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 31 March 2023
11 m awayRef 2023041293752
Slight
Dennis crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 26 March 2004
11 m awayRef 200404C051404
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 14 November 2000
11 m awayRef 200004C097800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201204CA12119 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.