Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre FY6 on 1 March 1979 at 17:06 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre at 17:06 on Thursday 1 March 1979. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Mar 1979
- Thursday, 17:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.84638, longitude -2.99097, in the FY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Poulton-le-Fylde.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040AJ0181
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A588 in Wyre, 17 July 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040AJ0720
Slight
Car crash on the A588 in Wyre, 1 June 1981
14 m awayRef 1981040AJ0542
Serious
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 2 February 1995
14 m awayRef 199504G002395
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 29 October 2000
22 m awayRef 200004B076500
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 13 December 2011
24 m awayRef 201104BC11265
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 4 June 2018
36 m awayRef 201804WD18092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979040AJ0181 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.