Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 6 August 2022 at 14:30 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Chorley at 14:30 on Saturday 6 August 2022. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2022
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61189, longitude -2.61073, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Adlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Adlington & Anderton, Chorley, PR6 9RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022041208433
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 11 August 2000
28 m awayRef 200004C067500
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 6 March 2005
33 m awayRef 200504C037705
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 28 March 1989
42 m awayRef 1989040CE0473
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 5 June 1983
46 m awayRef 1983040JJ0772
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 13 February 1996
48 m awayRef 199604C004696
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 29 October 1991
48 m awayRef 1991040CE1819
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2022041208433 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 2022.