Serious unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY4 on 21 February 1979 at 00:33 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 00:33 on Wednesday 21 February 1979. The 26-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Feb 1979
- Wednesday, 00:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80255, longitude -3.02942, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040CD0213
- Council area
- Blackpool
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 29 April 1986
10 m awayRef 1986040AB0925
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 1 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200104A071601
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 24 April 2014
20 m awayRef 201404AM14053
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 13 June 2011
20 m awayRef 201104AX11055
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 22 December 1997
30 m awayRef 199704A092197
Serious
Scooter crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 20 October 1982
32 m awayRef 1982040CD1460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979040CD0213 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 1979.