Serious unclassified road crash in Tameside M43 on 23 January 2021 at 13:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tameside at 13:15 on Saturday 23 January 2021. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jan 2021
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4772, longitude -2.16508, in the M43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Droylsden.
Map of where the crash happened in Tameside
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202106G080282
- Council area
- Tameside
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2020.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tameside, 9 March 2020
9 m awayRef 202006G170359
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Tameside, 1 October 2013
29 m awayRef 201306G078220
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 28 July 2000
32 m awayRef 200006A007614
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 26 February 2001
32 m awayRef 200106A009190
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 16 January 1999
32 m awayRef 199906A400199
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 9 December 1990
58 m awayRef 199006B275190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 202106G080282 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tameside road accident statistics for 2021.