Serious unclassified road crash in Basingstoke and Deane RG21 on 6 December 2018 at 08:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane at 08:00 on Thursday 6 December 2018. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27389, longitude -1.08021, in the RG21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basingstoke. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastrop & Grove, Basingstoke and Deane, RG21 4EQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440454849
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
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
- 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
- 91%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 9%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 3 April 1999
16 m awayRef 1999440BB0381
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 3 December 1985
19 m awayRef 1985440BB0596
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 1 April 1989
20 m awayRef 1989440BB0279
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 27 January 2006
20 m awayRef 2006440034876
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 22 September 2012
27 m awayRef 2012440373398
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 10 June 1986
29 m awayRef 1986440BB0287
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2018440454849 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 2018.