B5237 crash in Wigan on 9 October 2014 at 07:30 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2014
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51357, longitude -2.56961, in the WN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bickershaw.
Map of where the crash happened in Wigan
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201406L092408
- Council area
- Wigan
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5237
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 April 2019.
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5237 in Wigan, 20 April 2019
4 m awayRef 201906L255753
Slight
Minibus crash on the B5237 in Wigan, 1 January 1994
39 m awayRef 199406L002594
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B5237 in Wigan, 31 July 1990
39 m awayRef 199006L240890
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the B5237 in Wigan, 19 July 2004
45 m awayRef 200406L905889
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5237 in Wigan, 31 March 1998
48 m awayRef 199806L244598
Serious
Volvo V50 crash on the B5237 in Wigan, 12 July 2024
77 m awayRef 2024061467098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201406L092408 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wigan road accident statistics for 2014.