Serious unclassified road crash in Warrington WA2 on 17 December 2012 at 20:26 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Warrington at 20:26 on Monday 17 December 2012. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 20:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41201, longitude -2.58835, in the WA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orford, Warrington, WA2 9PE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012070360763
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2011.
Slight
Honda Concerto crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 7 May 2011
14 m awayRef 2011070124472
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 6 August 2002
58 m awayRef 2002070204150
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 28 September 1990
61 m awayRef 1990070D21419
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 21 May 1981
61 m awayRef 1981071D20630
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 21 July 2010
64 m awayRef 2010070216673
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 9 January 1996
64 m awayRef 1996076B20025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2012070360763 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2012.