B5243 crash in West Lancashire on 4 November 2014 at 11:12
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the B5243 in West Lancashire at 11:12 on Tuesday 4 November 2014. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2014
- Tuesday, 11:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62236, longitude -2.98234, in the PR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404SB14021
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5243
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 August 2012.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 26 August 2012
24 m awayRef 201204CJ12174
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 4 September 2004
38 m awayRef 200404C079404
Serious
Renault 19 crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 1 July 2001
38 m awayRef 200104C056501
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 12 October 2005
109 m awayRef 200504CK05085
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 6 January 1988
256 m awayRef 198805B400038
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 5 December 1985
311 m awayRef 1985040KJ0826
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 201404SB14021 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2014.