Serious unclassified road crash in Halton WA8 on 1 April 2017 at 21:34 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Halton at 21:34 on Saturday 1 April 2017. A 65-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
- 1 Apr 2017
- Saturday, 21:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38523, longitude -2.74189, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birchfield, Halton, WA8 9AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017077099668
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2009.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 4 November 2009
19 m awayRef 2009070349296
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 11 March 1982
67 m awayRef 1982072D10311
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 4 December 1990
67 m awayRef 1990070D11866
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 6 March 1984
72 m awayRef 1984074D10320
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 25 April 1986
74 m awayRef 1986076D10545
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 16 August 1986
74 m awayRef 1986076D11096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Ceed)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2017077099668 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 2017.