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Serious A584 crash in Blackpool on 14 April 1979 at 15:03 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A584 in Blackpool at 15:03 on Saturday 14 April 1979. An 86-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
Serious
Date
14 Apr 1979
Saturday, 15:03
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78819, longitude -3.0579, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979040CD0417
Council area
Blackpool
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
584
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 July 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 86, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1979040CD0417 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.