Serious B5093 crash in Manchester on 2 August 2023 at 18:07 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on the B5093 in Manchester at 18:07 on Wednesday 2 August 2023. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Aug 2023
- Wednesday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44189, longitude -2.20702, in the M14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Withington, Manchester, M14 6RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023061337649
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5093
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2025.
Slight
Audi TTS crash on the B5093 in Manchester, 17 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025061630125
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the B5093 in Manchester, 19 January 2006
24 m awayRef 200606B042902
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5093 in Manchester, 5 July 2004
46 m awayRef 200406C905457
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5093 in Manchester, 14 March 1993
51 m awayRef 199306C055893
Slight
Car crash on the B5093 in Manchester, 30 October 1979
51 m awayRef 197906D001587
Slight
Peugeot 104 crash on the A34 in Manchester, 26 June 1990
58 m awayRef 199006C150490
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- 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 2023061337649 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2023.