Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB10 on 2 April 2015 at 16:55 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 16:55 on Thursday 2 April 2015. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81405, longitude -2.21988, in the BB10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queensgate, Burnley, BB10 2PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504EF15098
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
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
- 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
- Dry
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2015.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 24 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201504EF15346
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 23 December 1998
14 m awayRef 199804F089998
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 12 October 1996
20 m awayRef 199604F033696
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 1 September 1999
22 m awayRef 199904F055899
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 22 April 2013
31 m awayRef 201304FG13029
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 25 September 1997
42 m awayRef 199704F057197
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 201504EF15098 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2015.