Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB12 on 27 September 1979 at 21:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Burnley at 21:50 on Thursday 27 September 1979. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 1979
- Thursday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79174, longitude -2.27608, in the BB12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040FA0757
- Council area
- Burnley
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 June 2001.
Serious
Skoda Favorit crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 30 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200104F046601
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 5 October 1980
22 m awayRef 1980040FB0789
Serious
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 17 November 2015
32 m awayRef 201504EF15341
Slight
Renault Safrane crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 30 November 2000
32 m awayRef 200004F070600
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 15 December 2000
40 m awayRef 200004F075600
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 16 April 1988
50 m awayRef 1988040FA0624
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1979040FA0757 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 1979.