A574 crash in Warrington on 16 December 2023 at 14:00 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 hit a pedestrian on the A574 in Warrington at 14:00 on Saturday 16 December 2023. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2023
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40886, longitude -2.62861, in the WA5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westbrook, Warrington, WA5 7NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023071279110
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 574
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2013.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A574 in Warrington, 16 April 2013
7 m awayRef 2013073102022
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A574 in Warrington, 8 December 1995
10 m awayRef 1995075B21921
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A574 in Warrington, 22 October 2012
31 m awayRef 2012070304300
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A574 in Warrington, 2 August 2001
39 m awayRef 2001070104463
Serious
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on the A574 in Warrington, 22 August 2011
41 m awayRef 2011070238049
Slight
Car crash on the A574 in Warrington, 28 September 2014
47 m awayRef 2014074290748
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023071279110 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2023.