A59 crash in West Lancashire on 5 September 2023 at 08:10 involving a Mazda CX-3
A Mazda CX-3 hit a pedestrian on the A59 in West Lancashire at 08:10 on Tuesday 5 September 2023. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2023
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda CX-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.60024, longitude -2.84448, in the L40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burscough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burscough Bridge & Rufford, West Lancashire, L40 5SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023041348959
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5241
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 4 July 2012
1 m awayRef 201204CJ12127
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 19 March 2017
2 m awayRef 201704SB17051
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 6 July 2013
2 m awayRef 201304CJ13135
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 22 August 1989
8 m awayRef 1989040CH1362
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A59 in West Lancashire, 1 November 1995
8 m awayRef 199504H039595
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5241 in West Lancashire, 3 June 1982
11 m awayRef 1982040KL0369
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda CX-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda CX-3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023041348959 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2023.