Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 1 December 2020 at 11:30 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 11:30 on Tuesday 1 December 2020. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2020
- Tuesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65301, longitude -2.64004, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2RQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020041003236
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 56 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 January 2006.
Serious
Van crash on the A581 in Chorley, 5 January 2006
56 m awayRef 200604CA06003
Serious
Bus crash on the A581 in Chorley, 16 October 1979
71 m awayRef 1979040JA1608
Serious
Car crash on the A581 in Chorley, 12 July 1988
71 m awayRef 1988040CA1057
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A581 in Chorley, 6 April 2017
71 m awayRef 201704SC17069
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A581 in Chorley, 23 November 2001
71 m awayRef 200104C106401
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A581 in Chorley, 4 December 2002
71 m awayRef 200204C115502
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- 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 2020041003236 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2020.