Unclassified road crash in Wyre FY5 on 23 February 1979 at 16:40 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre at 16:40 on Friday 23 February 1979. The 43-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 1979
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88057, longitude -3.00836, in the FY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thornton.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040AG0156
- Council area
- Wyre
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2009.
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Serious
Ford KA crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 9 January 2012
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 20 February 2002
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Fatal
Car crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 23 August 1995
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 14 December 2000
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1979040AG0156 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 1979.