A6042 crash in Manchester on 2 March 2013 at 23:39 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia hit a pedestrian on the A6042 in Manchester at 23:39 on Saturday 2 March 2013. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 23:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48701, longitude -2.24065, in the M60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Piccadilly, Manchester, M4 4HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201306A071057
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 27 March 2013
14 m awayRef 201306A071926
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 20 May 1998
14 m awayRef 199806A251298
Slight
Dennis crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 4 August 2004
20 m awayRef 200406A907079
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 23 April 2005
22 m awayRef 200506A025559
Slight
Dennis crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 4 February 2004
22 m awayRef 200406A016878
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 18 February 2011
26 m awayRef 201106A042737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201306A071057 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2013.