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A671 crash in Burnley on 12 November 1979 at 10:10 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A671 in Burnley at 10:10 on Monday 12 November 1979. A 93-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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
Slight
Date
12 Nov 1979
Monday, 10:10
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78569, longitude -2.24705, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979040FA0891
Council area
Burnley
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
671
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
B
Second road number
6434

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 serious injury crash on 14 August 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    39 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 93, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    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 1979040FA0891 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.