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Unclassified road crash in Blackburn with Darwen BB2 on 16 July 1979 at 23:00 involving a car

Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen at 23:00 on Monday 16 July 1979. The 32-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 42-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Jul 1979
Monday, 23:00
Vehicles
3
Car and 2 others
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75077, longitude -2.49358, in the BB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn.

Map of where the crash happened in Blackburn with Darwen

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979040EC0863
Council area
Blackburn with Darwen
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Dark, street lights lit
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 18 September 2010.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

  • Vehicle 3: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1979040EC0863 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 1979.