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Serious unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA4 on 30 August 1979 at 15:53 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 15:53 on Thursday 30 August 1979. A 66-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Aug 1979
Thursday, 15:53
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07289, longitude -2.86142, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979040BB1094
Council area
Lancaster
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
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 25 October 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    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 1979040BB1094 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1979.