Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA6 on 10 May 2018 at 19:18 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 19:18 on Thursday 10 May 2018. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2018
- Thursday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13505, longitude -2.74807, in the LA6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carnforth & Millhead, Lancaster, LA5 9XH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804WB18138
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M6 in Lancaster, 24 December 1995
41 m awayRef 199504B064495
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the M6 in Lancaster, 26 October 1996
158 m awayRef 199604B050296
Serious
Van crash on the M6 in Lancaster, 28 February 1983
192 m awayRef 1983040BD0241
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A601 in Lancaster, 11 August 1995
200 m awayRef 199504B034995
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A601 in Wyre, 1 July 2002
200 m awayRef 200204B041302
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A601 in Lancaster, 22 October 1997
216 m awayRef 199704B070697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201804WB18138 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2018.