Serious A50 crash in Warrington on 19 May 2015 at 14:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A50 in Warrington at 14:45 on Tuesday 19 May 2015. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 May 2015
- Tuesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40859, longitude -2.59339, in the WA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Orford, Warrington, WA2 8AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015075143467
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2005.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A50 in Warrington, 20 July 2005
33 m awayRef 2005070503133
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A50 in Warrington, 18 April 1994
33 m awayRef 1994074B20481
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A49 in Warrington, 3 August 2006
37 m awayRef 2006070603118
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A50 in Warrington, 11 February 2018
41 m awayRef 2018070035719
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 17 December 1999
42 m awayRef 1999070000088
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A50 in Warrington, 16 September 1998
42 m awayRef 1998078B21365
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015075143467 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2015.