Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 30 December 2014 at 13:30 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
A Volkswagen Sharan hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 13:30 on Tuesday 30 December 2014. A 54-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Sharan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65208, longitude -2.63206, in the PR7 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
- 201404SC14113
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2012.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 1 September 2012
2 m awayRef 201204CA12160
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6 in Chorley, 2 March 1996
4 m awayRef 199604C005596
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 8 February 1980
4 m awayRef 1980040JA0203
Slight
Minibus crash on the A6 in Chorley, 17 December 1992
4 m awayRef 1992040CA1999
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A6 in Chorley, 19 December 1992
4 m awayRef 1992040CA2000
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 19 September 1989
4 m awayRef 1989040CA1560
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Sharan)
- 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 201404SC14113 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 2014.